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Original title: Devil and Daniel Webster, The
DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 30, 2003
Running Time
1 hour, 47 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
William Dieterle Productions
Studio RKO Pictures
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Other Titles
• The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
• Alles was Geld kaufen kann (1945)
• A Certain Mr. Scratch
• Here Is a Man
• All That Money Can Buy
• Daniel and the Devil
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Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Demonic Possession, Demon, Suspense, Devil, Law, Period Piece, Fantasy, Courtroom
Plot: William Dieterle adapts Stephen Vincent Benet's transformation of the Faust legend from the tale of an aging genius to that of struggling New Hampshire farmer Jabez Stone, played by James Craig. When Stone absently exclaims that he would sell his soul for a little money and a decent crop, up pops the Mephistophelean Mr. Scratch (Walter Huston). Thinking the whole thing a joke, Stone takes Scratch up on his offer of seven years of prosperity in return for his soul. As Stone's fortunes change and his coffers swell, so does his character. He mutates into a hard, avaricious tyrant, nearly enslaving as tenant famers the neigbors who had been his friends. Ignoring his kind and patient wife, Mary (Anne Shirley), he takes a mistress, Belle (Simone Simon), builds her a mansion, and even allows her to raise his son. When Scratch comes to collect his debt, the terrified Stone realizes his error and begs legendary New Hampshire lawyer and politician Daniel Webster (Edward Arnold) for help. THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER is a nearly perfect film, very well acted and directed, with an exceptional performance by Huston. Even better are the Oscar-winning score by Bernard Herrmann and the gorgeous black-and-white photography of Joseph August.
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William Dieterle
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Edward Arnold
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