THE STORY OF MANKIND (1957)
Story based on highlights of Man's history. Vincent Price plays the devil and does battle with Ronald Coleman who represents the spirit of man.
Cast
Ronald Colman - The Spirit of Man
Vincent Price - Mr. Scratch, The Devil
Groucho Marx - Peter Minuit
Harpo Marx - Sir Isaac Newton
Chico Marx - Monk
Hedy Lamarr - Joan of Arc
Virginia Mayo - Cleopatra
Agnes Moorehead - Queen Elizabeth
Peter Lorre - Nero
Charles Coburn - Hippocrates
Ray Flynn - Aristotle
Nestor Eristoff - Socrates
Cedric Hardwicke - High Judge
Cesar Romero - Spanish Envoy
John Carradine - Khufu
Dennis Hopper - Napoleon Bonaparte
Marie Wilson - Marie Antoinette
Helmut Dantine - Mark Antony
Edward Everett Horton - Sir Walter Raleigh
Reginald Gardiner - William Shakespeare
Marie Windsor - Josephine
George E. Stone - Waiter
Cathy O'Donnell - Early Christian Woman
Franklin Pangborn - Marquis de Varennes
Melville Cooper - Major Domo
Henry Daniell - Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais
Francis X. Bushman - Prophet Moses
Jim Ameche - Alexander Graham Bell
David Bond - Early Christian
Nick Cravat - Devil's Apprentice
Dani Crayne - Helen of Troy
Richard H. Cutting - Court Attendant
Anthony Dexter - Christopher Columbus
Toni Gerry - Wife
Austin Green - Abraham Lincoln
Eden Hartford - Laughing Water
Alexander Lockwood - Promoter
Melinda Marx - Early Christian Child
Bart Mattson - Cleopatra's Brother
Don Megowan - Early Man
Marvin Miller - Armana
Nancy Miller - Early Woman
Leonard Mudie - Chief Inquisitor
Burt Nelson - Second Early Man
Tudor Owen - High Tribunal Clerk
Ziva Rodann - Egyptian Concubine
Harry Ruby - Indian Brave
William Schallert - Earl of Warwick
Reginald Sheffield - Julius Caesar
Abraham Sofaer - Indian Chief
Bobby Watson - Adolf Hitler
Sam Harris - Nobleman in Queen Elizabeth's Court
Charles Horvath - Attila the Hun
Paul Power - Leonardo da Vinci
Angelo Rossitto - Dwarf in Nero's Court
Production Crew
Producer - Irwin Allen
Director - Irwin Allen
Screenplay - Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett
Original Novel - Hendrik Van Loon
Director of Photography - Nick Musuraca, A.S.C.
Technicolor Color Consultant - Robert Brower
Associate Producer - George E. Swink
Music Composer and Conductor - Paul Sawtell
Art Director - Art Loel
Supervising Film Editor - Roland Gross, A.C.E.
Film editor - Gene Palmer
Assistant Film Editor - John W. Hanley
Assistant Director - Joseph Don Page
Set Decorator - Arthuer Krams
Costumes - Marjorie Best
Makeup Supervisor - Gordon Bau, S.M.A.
Sound - Stanley Jones
Research - Jean McChesney
Technical Advisor - Ruth K. Greenfield
Music Editors - Leon Birnbaum, Robert Tracy
A Cambridge Production
Copyright 1957 Warner Bros Pictures Inc.
Trivia
Eden Hartford (Laughing Water) was actress Dee Hartford's sister and was married to Groucho Marx during the 50's and 60's. Melinda Marx (Early Christian Child) is Groucho Marx's daughter (with wife Kay Marvis).
Alternative Titles
Italy: L'inferno ci Accusa
Portugal: A História da Humanidade
Venezuela: La Historia de la Humanidad
