Witchfinder General (1968)
I'm not sure whether this sorts of barbarism still exits or not but many years back I read several reports in our local newspapers regarding this type of "practices" at some very rural parts of our country. Some 'Huzur' (so called literate teacher of Islamic studies & knowledge) used to torture women & children in the villages who had been possessed by Saytan (Devil) or brought a shame into their community by acting in a non-Islamic manner and so they first dig a hole or kinda small grave in the ground and put woman or young girls into it and ordered the people surround them to throw stones on them till to their death (locally known as "Dorra")...! Mathew Hopkins reminded me of those Huzurs and such a way this film has a strong universal & historic value that represents one of the dark sides of our civilization.
Price portrayed brilliantly and as accurately as possible the role of the Withcfinder which was sinisterly cold & evil and definitely one of his best.
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