Movie
Year: 1957
Director: Irwin Allen
US Premiere: 8 November 1957
A Cambridge Production
Copyright 1957 Warner Bros Pictures Inc.
Story based on highlights of Man's history. Vincent Price plays the devil and does battle with Ronald Colman who represents the spirit of man.
The Cast of The Story of Mankind
Ronald Colman - The Spirit of Man
Vincent Price - Mr. Scratch, The Devil
Groucho Marx - Peter Minuit
Harpo Marx - Sir Isaac Newton
Chico Marx - Monk (with Christopher Columbus)
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 at High Tribunal
Cesar Romero - Spanish Envoy
John Carradine - Pharaoh 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 in Elizabeth I Court
Cathy O'Donnell - Early Christian Woman
Franklin Pangborn - Marquis de Varennes
Melville Cooper - Major Domo in Elizabeth I Court
Henry Daniell - Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais
Francis X. Bushman - Prophet Moses
Tybee Afra - Dancer in Nero's Court
Jim Ameche - Alexander Graham Bell
David Bond - Early Christian Man
Jack Costanzo - Drummer in Nero's Court
Nick Cravat - Devil's Apprentice
Dani Crayne - Helen of Troy
Richard H. Cutting - Court Attendant
Anthony Dexter - Christopher Columbus
Toni Gerry - Wife of sick man
Austin Green - Abraham Lincoln
Sam Harris - Nobleman in Queen Elizabeth's Court
Eden Hartford - Laughing Water
Paul Kruger - Pharaoh's Guard
Alexander Lockwood - Promoter
Melinda Marx - Early Christian Child
Bart Mattson - Cleopatra's Brother
Don Megowan - First Early Man
Marvin Miller - Armana
Nancy Miller - Early Woman
Leonard Mudie - Chief Inquisitor
Burt Nelson - Second Early Man
Tudor Owen - High Tribunal Clerk
Paul Power - Leonardo da Vinci
Ziva Rodann - Egyptian Concubine
Angelo Rossitto - Dwarf in Nero's Court
Harry Ruby - Indian Brave 1
Cherokee Landrum - Indian Brave 2
William Schallert - Earl of Warwick
Reginald Sheffield - Julius Caesar
Abraham Sofaer - Indian Chief
Bobby Watson - Adolf Hitler
Charles Horvath - Attila the Hun
Fred Kelsey - Cardinal
Brandon Beach - High Tribunal Judge 1
Creighton Hale - High Tribunal Judge 3
Jack Henderson - High Tribunal Judge 4
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
Italy: L'inferno ci Accusa
Portugal: A História da Humanidade
Venezuela: La Historia de la Humanidad