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The Devil's Disciple is a 1959 British-American film adaptation of the 1897 George Bernard Shaw play The Devil's Disciple. The Anglo-American film was directed by Guy Hamilton , who replaced Alexander Mackendrick , [3] and starred Burt Lancaster , Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier .
A comedy film based on George Bernard Shaw's play about a revolutionary American Puritan who masquerades as a minister and a British general during the War of Independence. Starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier and Janette Scott.
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- Comedy, History, Romance
- Guy Hamilton, Alexander Mackendrick
- 1959-08-20
The Devil's Disciple is an 1897 play written by Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield's original 1897 American production it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright.
When Dick Dudgeon (Kirk Douglas) learns his father was executed by the British for treason at the onset of the Revolutionary War, he steals the body...
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- Guy Hamilton
- History, Drama
- Burt Lancaster
Find out who starred in and worked behind the scenes of the 1959 film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play. See the full list of actors, directors, writers, producers, and more on IMDb.
The black sheep of a family and the local minister discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War. In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of ...
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The Devil’s Disciple (performed 1897) is a play set in New Hampshire during the American Revolution and is an inversion of traditional melodrama. Caesar and Cleopatra (performed 1901) is Shaw’s first great play.
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