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
Big Trouble (1986 film) Big Trouble (1986 film) Big Trouble is a 1986 American comedy film. It was director John Cassavetes' last film. He took over from screenwriter Andrew Bergman (who was going to direct). The cast reunited Peter Falk and Alan Arkin, co-stars of "The In-Laws", also featured Beverly D'Angelo, Charles Durning and Valerie Curtin. The film's plot was so similar to that of "Double Indemnity" that, prior to production, Columbia Pictures was forced to trade the ownership of their unused script called "Back to the Future" with Universal Pictures (rights-holder for "Double Indemnity") to reuse the plot of the earlier film. Leonard