Wellman in TV and Film
This section is taken word for word from Mark Cannon's very extensive bibliography of Manly Wade Wellman.


Larroes Catch Meddlers:-
Adapted for television for Lights Out as “The Meddlers”.

1952 (Aired:- 7 July 1951)

Director:-Unknown

Screenwriter:- Douglas Wood Gibson, Richard E Davis

Starring:- John Carradine, E G Marshall, Dan Morgan


School for the Unspeakable:-
Adapted for television for Lights Out as “The School for the Unspeakable”.

1952 (Aired:- 7 January 1952)

Director:-Unknown

Screenwriter:- Richard E Davis

Starring:- Donald Buka, Don Hanmer, Leon Tokatyan, Dick Kallman, Maurice Kenney, Jason Jonson, John Gerstad, Harold Webster


The Valley Was Still:-
Adapted for television for The Twilight Zone as “Still Valley

1961 (Originally aired:- 24 November 1961)

Director:- James Sheldon

Screenwriter:- Rod Serling

Starring:- Gary Merrill (Paradine), Vaughn Taylor (Old Man), Ben Cooper (Dauger), Addison Myers (Sentry); Mark Tapscott (Lieutenant), Jack Mann (Mallory)


The Devil is Not Mocked:-
Adapted for television for Night Gallery.

1971 (Originally aired:- 27 October 1971)

Director:- Gene Kearney

Screenwriter:- Gene Kearney

Starring:- Helmut Dantine (General), Francis Lederer (Master), Hank Brandt (Kranz)


Who Fears The Devil? 1972 (Jack Harris) [feature film]
(edited and re-released as The Legend of Hillbilly John 1973) - 89 minutes

Producer:- Barney Rosenzweig

Director:- John Newland

Screenwriter:- Melvin Levy

Editor:- Russell Schoengarth

Cinematographer:- Flemming Olsen

Composer:- Roger Kellaway

Starring:- Hedge Capers (John), Susan Strasberg (Poly Wiltse), Denver Pyle (Grandpappy John), Severn Darden (Mr Marduke), Percy Rodriguez (Capt Lojoie H Desplain IV), R G Armstrong (Bristowe); Sharon Henesy (Lily); Sidney Clute (Charles); William Traynor (Rev. Millen); Harris Yulin (Zebulon Yandro); Alfred Ryder (O J Onselm); Chester Jones (Uncle Anansi); Val Avery (Cobart); “White Lightnin’” (themselves); “Honor Hound” (himself).

Film based on the character of John.  Two segments of the film were based on the stories O Ugly Bird and The Desrick on Yandro.


Rouse Him Not:-
Adapted for TV for Monsters, 1988 (Originally aired:- December 1988)

Director:- Mark Shostrom

Writer:- Michael Parry

Starring:- Laraine Newman, Alex Cord, Terrance Evans


School for the Unspeakable
(on tape with Unfortunate Obsession by Matthew Costello)

Audio Cassette

Brilliance Corp 1997



 

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