A doctor in 1890 England, in order to cure his wife's "sick mind," injects her with snake venom. She later gives birth to a daughter whom the villagers call "The Devil's Baby" and in a fit of fear they end up burning the family's house down. Years later a Scotland Yard detective is sent to the village to investigate a rash of deaths that are caused by snakebite.

John McCarthy
as Charles Prentice

Susan Travers
as Atheris

Geoffrey Denton
as Col. Clyde Wynborn

Elsie Wagstaff
as Aggie Harker

Arnold Marlé
as Dr. Murton

John Cazabon
as Dr. Horace Adderson

Frances Bennett
as Polly, the Barmaid

Jack Cunningham
as Constable Alfie

Hugh Moxey
as Inspector

Michael Logan
as Barkis
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For what this is this is quite excellent. It is, of course, low budget and it is early 60s and it is British and it is hokey, but it is still rather good. We have become quite jaded to the twists and turns of narrative design in movies, but in the 60s this would have been deeply shocking. It acted w...