Wellman in TV and Film
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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)
Watch
Still
Valley online at CBS.com
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)
Watch
The Devil is Not Mocked online at hulu.com
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
Watch
Rouse Him Not online at veoh.com
School
for the Unspeakable
(on tape with Unfortunate Obsession by
Matthew Costello)
Audio Cassette
Brilliance Corp 1997
Up Under the Roof
2010 short film (35mm, 20 minutes)
Producer:- Danielle Stallings & Darin Read
Director:- Darin Read
Screenwriter:- Danielle Stallings & Darin Read
Starring: -Jonathan Milliken, Shawnna Youngquist, Geoff Elliot, Jill
Hill, Vince Froio, Alice Taylor and voice of Greg Finley
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