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From: jackh@zehntel.UUCP (jack hagerty)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Seeking Jacques Tourneur Film Title
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Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 19:34:43 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 19 19:34:43 1985
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> I am trying to remember the name of a film that used to be
> broadcast quite frequently on Channel 9 (New York) on Saturday
> mornings years ago.  It is a film by Jacques Tourneur, was made
> in the late 1950's in Britain, and is one of the most genuinely
> frightening movies I've ever seen.  It stars Dana Andrews.  The
> film involves Andrews trying to hunt down a guy with the power
> to raise spirits of evil by the use of old runic charms, self-
> igniting parchments, etc.  The monster, when it is finally seen
> at the end of the film, is every bit as terrible as anyone could
> have imagined (the thing has wings, enormous fangs, tears people
> limb from limb, and looks to be about 40 feet tall!); it is every
> child's nightmare demon rolled into one.  Does anyone out there
> know the name of the film I'm describing?
> -- 
>                                 Ken Wolman
>               Bell Communications Research @ Livingston, NJ
>                                 lcuxc!kenw
>                               (201) 740-4565
> 

This sounds like the perfect description of *Curse of the Deamon*. I saw
it in Berkeley as part of a triple feature along with *The Haunting* and
*Dead of Night* (the uncut version that includes the golfing story).

Of course, I could be thinking of some other 40' winged, fanged people
shredder!

-- 
                    Jack Hagerty, Zehntel Automation Systems
                          ...!ihnp4!zehntel!jackh