雷金纳德·贝克威思

尽管全球通力协作，地球还是不可避免地要与太阳相撞了，英国记者报道这个即将到来的灾难。

本片拍摄于1953年，根据马克·吐温的小说《一张百万英镑的钞票》改编。　　富豪之家的两兄弟，从银行取出面额为一百万英镑的钞票，想以此验证一个穷人拿到这张巨额钞票的结局。哥哥认为这张钞票对一个穷人毫无价值，最终他还是会穷困潦倒；而弟弟则认为他会因为这张钞票摆脱困境过上富足的生活。为了证明各自的理论的正确的，兄弟两人为此打起了赌。他们将这张钞票留给穷困潦倒的美国小伙子亨利·亚当斯（格利高里·派克 Gregory Peck 饰）后出国旅行了，留下对未来一片迷茫的亨利。　　人们对这位突然暴富的罕见富翁，竟拼命地拉拢他，从免费吃饭，买衣服，到免费住宿，一个个像乞丐一样讨好他，并不断提高他的社会地位。不仅如此，这位幸运的小伙子还取到了一位好妻子和三万英镑的银行利息，从此以后过着非常幸福的生活。

American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].

Norman Taylor is a successful young professor, married with Tansy Taylor. He is a very skeptical man, while his wife believes in magic and witchcraft. One day, he finds lots of amulets and witchcraft in his house, and he decides to destroy all of them. His wife gets scared and advises him that he destroyed all the protection their home and lives had against the evil of envious and wicked persons, including some of his colleagues. Norman in principle does not have faith in her, but many strange events happen with him, and he changes his mind