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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
The Voice of the Mountains - The
Life and Writings of Manly Wade Wellman http://www.manlywadewellman.com
c 2006 Daniel Ross Updated March 31, 2006
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