The Devil's Disciple

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Devil’s Disciple, 1959.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Devil’s Disciple, 1959.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Devil’s Disciple, 1959.

Redcoat General Burgoyne (Laurence Olivier) warns aide Swindon (Harry Andrews) then doesn't quite meet preacher Anderson (Burt Lancaster), arrived too late to stop a hanging, in The Devil's Disciple, 1959, from the George Bernard Shaw play.

From the Bernard Shaw play, worried Revolutionary War New Hampshire minister Anderson (Burt Lancaster) meets outlaw Dick Dudgeon (Kirk Douglas, Burt’s co-star and producing partner, his first scene), delivering the body of his hanged father, in The Devil’s Disciple, 1959.

At the wake for his father, hanged by the British, New Hampshire outlaw Richard Dudgeon (Kirk Douglas) tangles with his mother (Eva LaGalliene), preacher Anderson (Burt Lancaster) and wife Judith (Janette Scott) in the George Bernard Shaw Revolutionary War tale The Devil's Disciple, 1959.

Narration from George Bernard Shaw's play, and Revolutionary War stop-motion animation, leading to the first scene between General Burgoyne (Laurence Olivier), a historical figure and himself a playwright, and Swindon (Harry Andrews), in The Devil's Disciple, 1959, produced by and starring Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster.