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Cry of the Banshee
Cry of the Banshee is a 1970 horror film directed by Gordon Hessler and starring Vincent Price as an evil witchhunter. The film was released by American International Pictures. The film costars Elizabeth Bergner, Hilary Dwyer, and Hugh Griffith.
The title credit sequence was animated by Terry Gilliam.
Plot.
The film is set in Elizabethan England and revolves around a wicked magistrate who tries to kill all the members of a coven of witches. It opens, like many Vincent Price movies, with
Cry Wolf". His work in "Starman," as Mark Shermin, a SETI member sympathetic to the title character's plight, was also lauded. In 1979 Smith was cast alongside Barney Martin as the lead in Norman Lear's last TV series concept, "", which never progressed beyond the pilot.
Another role was in "Banshee," an episode of "The Ray Bradbury Theater" that costarred Peter O'Toole and Jennifer Dale. He also appeared in the episode "Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your