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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 30, 2003
- Originally Released: 1941
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Walter Huston | |
Performer: | Edward Arnold, Anne Shirley, James Craig, Simone Simon, Jane Darwell, Gene Lockhart, John Qualen & H.B. Warner | |
Directed by | William Dieterle | |
Edited by | Robert Wise | |
Screenwriting by | Dan Totheroh | |
Composition by | Bernard Herrmann | |
Cinematography by | Joseph H. August | |
Produced by | William Dieterle |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1941 -
Best Original Score: Bernard Herrmann
Entertainment Reviews:
Juxtapose the name of a true-life nineteenth-century orator, attorney and senator with the Biblical personification of evil, and you capture something of the strange mix here of social realism and moralising mythology
Little White Lies
Rating: 8/10 --
This devil is fun, seductive, even, and he knows it-he's always immensely pleased with himself, and he doesn't need to pressure anyone to do business with him...
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PopMatters
Rating: 4/5 --
Wonderfully made fantasy that strangely leaves me cold.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: B+ --
William Dieterle's entertaining version of the noted Stephen Vincent Benet's story, about the Devil and Daniel Webster features a strong, Oscar nominated performance by Walter Huston.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Spooky, light-hearted, and never less than a joy to watch
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 5/5 --
A wonderful masterpiece. Walter Huston has a devilishly good time!
Reeling Reviews
Rating: B --
It's the heavy Teutonic Faust, but made American lite in this supernatural tale.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
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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- UPC: 037429181423
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