The Devil's Disciple is a 1959 film adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw play of the same title. The Anglo-American film was directed by Guy Hamilton who replaced Alexander Mackendrick and starred Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, and Laurence Olivier. Mary Grant designed the film's costumes. Lancaster and Douglas made several films together over the decades, including I Walk Alone , Gunfight at the O.K. Corral , Seven Days in May , and Tough Guys , which fixed the notion of the pair as something of a team in the public's imagination. Douglas was always second-billed under Lancaster in these... films but, with the exception of I Walk Alone, in which Douglas played a villain, their roles were usually more or less the same size. Richard "Dick" Dudgeon is an outcast from his family in colonial Websterbridge, New Hampshire. He returns their hatred with scorn. After the death of his father by mistakenly being hanged by the British as a rebel in nearby Springtown, Dick rescues his father's body from the gallows, where it had been left as an example to others, and has it buried in the parish graveyard in Websterbridge.
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| Release date: | 1959 |
| Directed by: | Guy Hamilton |
| Runtime: | 83 Minutes |
| Producer: | Harold Hecht |
| Music by: | Richard Rodney Bennett |
| Cinematography: | Jack Hildyard |
| Screenplay by: | George Bernard Shaw, John Dighton |
| Genre: | Comedy |