To the Devil a Daughter (1976)

To the Devil a Daughter is a rather heavy re-working of the 1953 Dennis Wheatley novel of the same name. Updating the setting from the 1950's south of France to contemporary England and Germany, the story leaves out a lot from the book, omits some characters, condenses others, and changes the gender and nationality of the protagonist from an English woman to an American male (here played by Richard Wydmark). There are a few lightly interesting ideas in the movie, and it did keep my attention, but it only vaguely resembled the book on which it was based and was on the whole a disappointment. While Christopher Lee makes all things better, sadly he alone can not save all things. **