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September 1963 (USA)
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Years after fleeing his ancestral home with his mother, Jason returns home to claim his birthright,...
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Routine swashbuckling adventure.
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Keith Michell | ... | Jason |
| Adrienne Corri | ... | Isobel |
 | Peter Cushing | ... | Merryweather |
| Peter Arne | ... | Thomas |
| Kai Fischer | ... | Yvonne |
| David Lodge | ... | Timothy |
| Bill Owen | ... | Martin |
| Miles Malleson | ... | Judge |
| Martin Stephens | ... | Jason as a Boy |
| Andrew Faulds | ... | Lord Netherden |
| Jean Lodge | ... | Lady Netherden |
| Francis Matthews | ... | Sir Hugh Manning |
| Desmond Walter-Ellis | ... | Lord Chorley (as Desmond Walter Ellis) |
| Denis Shaw | ... | Sir Richard |
| Tutte Lemkow | ... | Higgins |
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90 min
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Referenced in Demonlover (2002)
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THE HELLFIRE CLUB is often wrongly sighted as a Hammer Films production probably because the film was written by Jimmy Sangster and features Peter Cushing in the cast. (I found this film on the Hammer Films shelf at my local video store.) In this adventure set in 1700's, Jason (Keith Mitchell) is driven out of his family estate after his mother is killed and raised by a band of circus performers. When Jason returns to claim his birthright as Lord of Netherden Castle, he discovers it has been taken over by his evil cousin Thomas (Peter Arne) who is a member of the nefarious 18th century secret society The Hellfire Club. With much Errol Flynn style derring do and a capture and an escape, Jason is able to rightfully claim his birthright and expose an evil conspiracy against the crown by the French and the wicked noblemen of The Hellfire Club.
Despite The Hellfire Clubs reputation (the real life secret society, not the film) for depravity and debauchery, mostly what we see of it in the film is pretty tame, even by 1960 standards. The orgy sequence that includes several scantly clad buxom babes in harem outfits is done tongue in cheek and looks as if the films makers were spoofing a harem sequence from some Maria Montez Arabian knights epic. Keith Mitchell as Jason is a bit stiff at times but he performs the sometimes cartoonish heroics convincingly. Peter Cushing is fine as usual in a rather small role as Merryweather. The film has nice production values and moves at a good pace, but overall THE HELLFIRE CLUB is just another movie.