Ah, the good old days, when men were men, and women were witches. Mark of the Devil takes place in Germany during the time of the Inquisition, when as many as eight million people were killed as heretics, in order to save their souls. Of course the dearly departed usually had land which was then taken by the church for practical reasons.
Cumberland(Herbert Lom) is the chief inquisitor, and his ambitious assistant, Christian(perfect name), travel throughout the land, picking out nubile girls for torture on the rack, and other imaginative entertainment, such as brandings and burning at the stake. Being a man of the flesh causes Cumberland to lust after Vanessa, a beautiful peasant girl he meets on his journey. She is stamped with Satan's mark and attempts to run away from the lunatics in charge. Grade B is an accurate description of Mark, and I kept waiting for Vincent Price to appear. Lom is sufficiently nasty enough to keep the movie interesting enough to watch to the end.
Cumberland(Herbert Lom) is the chief inquisitor, and his ambitious assistant, Christian(perfect name), travel throughout the land, picking out nubile girls for torture on the rack, and other imaginative entertainment, such as brandings and burning at the stake. Being a man of the flesh causes Cumberland to lust after Vanessa, a beautiful peasant girl he meets on his journey. She is stamped with Satan's mark and attempts to run away from the lunatics in charge. Grade B is an accurate description of Mark, and I kept waiting for Vincent Price to appear. Lom is sufficiently nasty enough to keep the movie interesting enough to watch to the end.