Incense for the Damned

Incense for the Damned
Film poster
Directed by	Robert Hartford-Davis
Produced by	Graham Harris executive: Peter Newbrook
Screenplay by	Julian More
Based on	Doctors Wear Scarlet by Simon Raven
Starring	Patrick Macnee Peter Cushing Edward Woodward
Music by	Bobby Richards
Cinematography	Desmond Dickinson
Production company	Lucinda Films
Distributed by	Titan Film Distribution Chevron Pictures (US)
Release dates	1972
Running time	87 min
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Incense for the Damned (also released as Bloodsuckers, Freedom Seeker and Doctors Wear Scarlet) is a 1970 British horror film.^[1] Starring Patrick Macnee, Patrick Mower and Peter Cushing, it is based on the 1960 Simon Raven novel Doctors Wear Scarlet.

Plot

The film centers on Richard Fountain, an Oxford don who has fallen under the influence of a mysterious Greek girl and her suspicious associates. Fountain's friends visit Greece to get him back and notice that wherever he has been a number of murders have taken place. They find their friend under the spell of a beautiful vampire, whose blood-sucking methods include the use of S&M sex. Believing that they have killed her, the group return to Great Britain, unaware that their friend is now a vampire.

Cast

Patrick Macnee as Derek Longbow
Peter Cushing as Dr. Walter Goodrich
Alexander Davion as Tony Seymore
Johnny Sekka as Bob Kirby
Madeleine Hinde as Penelope
Patrick Mower as Richard Fountain
Imogen Hassall as Chriseis
Edward Woodward as Dr. Holstrom
William Mervyn as Marc Honeydew
David Lodge as Colonel
John Barron as Diplomat

Production

Shooting took place in part in Greece and Cyprus. Money ran out during production causing filming to halt in the spring of 1969; it resumed later on. This involved writing of new scenes with new actors and a new director. Robert Hartford-Davies, the original director, subsequently disowned the movie.^[2]

References

↑ "Doctors Wear Scarlet". British Film Institute. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
↑ John Hamilton, The British Independent Horror Film 1951-70 Hemlock Books 2013 p 198-202

External links

Incense for the Damned at the Internet Movie Database
Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television, Volumen 39 Escrito por Gale Group,Thomas Riggs

The films of Robert Hartford-Davis

Crosstrap (1962) The Yellow Teddy Bears (1963) The Black Torment (1964) Saturday Night Out (1964) Gonks Go Beat (1965) The Sandwich Man (1966) Corruption (1967) The Smashing Bird I Used to Know (1969) Incense for the Damned (1970) Nobody Ordered Love (1972) The Fiend (1972) Black Gunn (1972) The Take (1974)

Simon Raven

Novels

Early novels	An Inch of Fortune (1951) The Feathers of Death (1959) Brother Cain (1959) Doctors Wear Scarlet (1960) Close of Play (1962)

Alms for Oblivion series	Fielding Gray Sound the Retreat The Sabre Squadron The Rich Pay Late Friends In Low Places The Judas Boy Places Where They Sing Come Like Shadows Bring Forth the Body The Survivors

The First-Born of Egypt series	Morning Star The Face of the Waters Before the Cock Crow New Seed For Old Blood of My Bone In the Image of God The Troubadour

Other novels	The Roses of Picardie (1980) September Castle (1984)

Essays, reminiscences and polemics

The English Gentleman (1961)
Boys Will Be Boys (1963)
The Fortunes of Fingel (1976)
Shadows on the Grass (1982)
The Old School (1986)
The Old Gang (1988)
Bird of Ill Omen (1989)
Is there anybody there? said the Traveller (1990)

Plays

Royal Foundation
The Move Up-Country
The Doomsday School
The Scapegoat
Panther Larkin
The High King's Tomb
The Gaming Book
Sir Jocelyn, The Minister Would Like a Word
The Case of Father Brendan

Adaptations

A Soiree at Blossom's Hotel
A Pyre for Private James
Incense for the Damned
Sexton Blake and the Demon God

Other writings

Chriseis (1960)
Places Where They Stay (1970)
The Islands of Sorrow (1994)
Remember Your Grammar and Other Haunted Stories (1997)
The World of Simon Raven (2002)

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