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Film details
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Featuring
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Country
United Kingdom
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Year
1968
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Genre
Horror
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Alternative titles
- The Conqueror Worm Alternative
- Edgar Allan Poe's Conqueror Worm Alternative
- Matthew Hopkins Witchfinder General Alternative
Synopsis
In 1645, during the English Civil War, the Ipswich lawyer turned Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins, and his servant John Stearne, tour the country instigating witch hunts, extracting confessions through torture. When conducting one of their witch hunts in the village of Brandeston, one of the many they accuse of witchcraft is the local priest. The priest's niece, Sara, offers herself to Hopkins in return for her uncle's life. Hopkins initially accepts her offer but Stearne persuades him otherwise and the witchfinder orders the execution to proceed. Richard Marshall, a soldier in Cromwell's army, returns to the village on leave to find Sara, his fiance, has been raped by Stearne and her uncle executed. Vowing revenge on Hopkins, Marshall goes in pursuit. Hearing of his pursuer, Hopkins arraigns both Marshall and Sara as witches and has them arrested. Marshall's army colleagues storm the jail where the two are being held and Marshall, having been freed from his chains, kills Hopkins with an axe.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Matthew Hopkins
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Richard Marshall
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John Stearne
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Trooper Swallow
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Sara
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Salter
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Captain Gordon
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fisherman
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priest
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Trooper Harcourt
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Trooper Gifford
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farrier
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Elizabeth Clark
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villager
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second old woman
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young woman in cell
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first old woman
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first innkeeper
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villager
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jailer
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wench in inn
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shepherd
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infantry sergeant
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Lavenham magistrate
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Webb
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wench in inn
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old man
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Paul, young husband
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foot soldier
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sentry
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second innkeeper
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first magistrate
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John Lowes
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Oliver Cromwell
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Master Loach
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wench in inn
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[farmer]
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[wench in inn]
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[wench in inn]
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Credits
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Gaffer
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Music Composed and Conducted by
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[Theme Song]
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Publicity
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