Satan Never Sleeps
“How Violators of Human Decency Work Their Terror Countdown!”
Synopsis
A priest arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him along the way. His job is to relieve the existing priest, who is now too old and weak to continue with the upkeep of the church. However, Communist soldiers arrive at the mission and seize it as a command post. Their leader rapes the native girl and impregnates her, only later to realize that Communism is no good for him. In the end, the foursome flee to the border, but are pursued by Communist forces along the way.
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Edited by Gordon PilkingtonShot by Oswald MorrisScored by Richard Rodney BennettDesigned by Thomas N Morahan
Also known as
- China-Storyde
- The Devil Never Sleepsen
- Satán nunca duermees
- Une histoire de Chinefr
- Storia cineseit
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18 unique people credited
Top billed cast
William Holden
as Father O'Banion
Clifton Webb
as Father Bovard
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as Father O'Banion
France Nuyen
as Siu Lan
Athene Seyler
as Sister Agness
Martin Benson
as Kuznietsky
Edith Sharpe
as Sister Theresa
Robert Lee
as Chung Ren
Marie Yang
as Ho San's Mother
Andy Ho
as Ho San's Father
Burt Kwouk
as Ah Wang
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