![]() ![]() One of the episodes of the never-made television series would have been To the Devil a Daughter which Hammer producer Brian Lawrence persuaded Nat Cohen at EMI to finance as a feature film after arranging a screening of the then still unreleased The Exorcist (1973). The series was in development around 1973, under the title The Devil and All His Works (around the same time they first announced something called Hammer House of Horror…)Ĭharlemagne went on to make Nothing but the Night (1972) which sank at the box office taking the company with it and Hammer took sole possession of the rights to eight of Wheatley’s books. ![]() ![]() They bought the rights to The Haunting of Toby Jugg (which Keys had tried to get going at Hammer a couple of times though managing director James Carreras had been less than keen) and To the Devil a Daughter but they were waylaid by Michael Carreras who had returned to Hammer in 1971 and one of his new ideas was to attempt an anthology television series based on Wheatley’s books. Hammer had already given Lee a particularly meaty role in The Devil Rides Out in 1968 which Nelson Keys had produced and Lee was keen to do more. In 1971, former Hammer producer Anthony Nelson Keys and Christopher Lee had teamed up to form Charlemagne Productions and one of the things they were most keen on at the time was adapting more Dennis Wheatley novels. ![]()
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