The Vulture (1967 film)

The Vulture is a 1967 horror film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Robert Hutton, Akim Tamiroff, Broderick Crawford, and Diane Clare.[2] One stormy night in Cornwall, schoolteacher Ellen West (Annette Carell) takes a shortcut across a graveyard, and witnesses a large bird with a human head emerging from a grave, seeing it fly away laughing maniacally and carrying a box in its talons.A recently discovered parchment has suggested that Real had been buried alive with the corpse of a large ‘loathsome’ bird he kept as a pet, and that he had sworn vengeance on all descendants of Squire Stroud, the man who ordered his interment.Trudy’s husband Eric Lutens (Robert Hutton) joins her on their planned holiday, and takes an interest in the mysterious events of the night before, especially after he finds a mutilated sheep in a clifftop cave.Brian Stroud (Broderick Crawford), the present squire, is unconcerned by Eric’s warnings but the next night, when he is enticed onto the balcony of his bedroom, he is snatched by the talons of a giant bird – his body is soon discovered in the cave.
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