The Vulture
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Lawrence Huntington
Robert Hutton
Akim Tamiroff
Broderick Crawford
Diane Clare
Philip Friend
Film Details
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Synopsis
One stormy night in Cornwall, schoolteacher Ellen West becomes hysterical when she sees a gigantic bird with a human face fly out of the open grave of Francis Real, an 18th-century seaman. Real, buried alive with a huge, murderous bird he had found in the South Pacific, had sworn vengeance on all descendants of Squire Stroud, the man who ordered his interment; nevertheless, Brian Stroud, the present squire, is unconcerned by the prophecy of doom. American scientist Eric Lutyens, husband of Brian's sister Trudy, is troubled when he finds the mutilated body of a sheep in what appears to be a vulture's nest. He visits Professor Koniglich, a scientist friend of Brian who believes himself to be a descendant of Real, and correctly surmises that Koniglich had attempted to disintegrate his own body in the grave and reassemble it through nuclear energy; unfortunately, the professor had failed to consider the bird buried there, and a mutation resulted. Before Eric can warn the Strouds, Brian and his brother Edward are found dead on a cliffside, and Trudy is carried away to the same site by the bird after she is lured to Koniglich's house. At the cliff, Eric finds his wife threatened by the beast with Koniglich's head and screams at her to use the gun he had given her. Trudy shoots the bird and it crashes to death on the rocks below; Eric then weights it with an anchor, tows it out to sea, and sinks it.
Director
Lawrence Huntington
Cast
Robert Hutton
Akim Tamiroff
Broderick Crawford
Diane Clare
Philip Friend
Patrick Holt
Annette Carell
Edward Caddick
Gordon Sterne
Keith Mcconnell
Margaret Robertson
Monty Landis
Gordon Tanner
Arnold Diamond
Murray Hayne
Roy Hanlon
Peter Elliott
George Tovey
Crew
Gordon Bond
Stephen Dade
Lawrence Huntington
Lawrence Huntington
Jack O. Lamont
Dulcie Midwinter
Geoffrey Rodway
Philip Shipway
John S. Smith
Bill Snaith
Eric Spear
Duncan Sutherland
Edgar Vetter
Film Details
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Location scenes filmed in Cornwall, England. Released in Canada in 1967 and in Great Britain in 1968. Filmed in color, with U. S. prints in black-and-white.
