The Devils (film) The Devils (film) The Devils is a 1971 British historical drama horror film directed by Ken Russell and starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave. Russell's screenplay is based partly on the 1952 book "The Devils of Loudun" by Aldous Huxley, and partly on the 1960 play "The Devils" by John Whiting, also based on Huxley's book. The film is a dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest executed for witchcraft following the supposed possessions in Loudun, France. Reed plays Grandier in the film and Vanessa Redgrave plays a hunchbacked sexually repressed
Martin Sherman career, earning him a second Tony nomination. He has had a number of plays on the West End, including "Messiah" (1982) with Maureen Lipman, "A Madhouse In Goa" (1989) with Vanessa Redgrave and Rupert Graves, "When She Danced" (1991) with Vanessa Redgrave, Oleg Menshikov and Frances De La Tour and "Onassis" (2010) with Robert Lindsay. His play "Some Sunny Day" premiered at the Hampstead Theatre in 1996, with Rupert Everett and Corin Redgrave. He found success in the genre of one-woman plays with "Rose," which was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play when it premiered in