La cruz del diablo (1975)

Country of Origin: Spain
Year of Production: 1975
Running Times: 92 mins
Format: Eastmancolor 35mm
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PRODUCTION
Production Company: Bulnes S.A.

SCRIPT
Script: Jacinto Molina, Juan José Porto
Novels: Miserere, El monte de las ánimas and La cruz del diablo by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

DIRECTION
Director: John Gilling

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Fernando Arribas

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Alfonso Santacana

MUSIC
Music: Ángel Arteaga

LOCATIONS
Locations: Casa de Campo, Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Escalona, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; Talamanca del Jarama, Madrid, Spain

CAST
Eduardo Calvo
Emma Cohen
Eduardo Fajardo
Pascual Hernández
Tony Isbert
Adolfo Marsillach
Ramiro Oliveros
Antonio Ramis
Mónica Randall
Fernando Sancho
Carmen Sevilla
Silvia Vivó

PLOT SUMMARY

Writer Alfred Dawson suffers strange hallucinations under the influence of opium, involving the legendary Knights Templar pursuing a young woman through a forest. He retires to Spain in order to overcome his addiction, but instead encounters the superstitions that are driving his hallucinations. He is followed everywhere by a sinister - and possibly demonic - figure in a black hood who slaughters everyone he meets, framing Dawson for the killings...

Spain
Theatrical Distributor: United International Pictures y Cía. S.R.C.

1975
February
13: Spain – production ends

March
29: Spain – theatrical release in Madrid

May
12: Spain – theatrical release in Barcelona

Cross of the Devil - US title
The Devil's Cross

book into film, coffins, the devil, drugs, hallucinations, knights templar, nightmares, opium, the supernatural, zombies