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Title THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER [DVD videorecording] / an RKO Radio picture ; [producer/director, William Dieterle ; screenplay, Dan Totheroh, Stephen Vincent Benét].
Publication Info. [United States] : Criterion Collection, c2003.
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Description 1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Series Criterion collection ; 214
System Details DVD; Dolby digital mono.; RSDL dual-layer.
Note Closed-captioned.
Cast Walter Huston, Edward Arnold, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon, James Craig, Anne Shirley, John Qualen, Jeff Corey, Gene Lockhart, Lindy Wade.
Credits Music, Bernard Herrmann.
Note Based on the short story by Stephen Vincent Benét.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1941; re-released in 1952 in shortened version as Daniel and the Devil.
Summary Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain.
Note Special features: audio commentary by film historian Bruce Eder and Bernard Herrmann biographer Stephen C. Smith; a reading of Benét's original short story by actor/director Alec Baldwin; comparison with an earlier preview version titled "Here is a man"; the Columbia Workshop's radio dramatization of the "Devil and Daniel Webster" and "The sea serpent"; the music of the film in an interactive essay by Christopher Husted; behind-the-scenes photos; essays by Tom Piazza and Benét.
Subject Devil -- Drama.
Lawyers -- New England -- Drama.
Farmers -- New England -- Drama.
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 -- Drama.
Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943. Devil and Daniel Webster.
Devil and Daniel Webster (Motion picture : 1941)
Genre Feature films.
Added Author Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943.
Dieterle, William, 1893-1972.
Totheroh, Dan.
Arnold, Edward, 1890-1956.
Huston, Walter, 1884-1950.
Craig, James, 1912-1985.
Shirley, Anne, 1918-
Simon, Simone.
Darwell, Jane, 1880-1967.
Qualen, John, 1899-
Corey, Jeff, 1914-2002.
Lockhart, Gene, 1891-1957.
Wade, Lindy.
Herrmann, Bernard, 1911-1975.
RKO Radio Pictures, inc.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Note Originally released under title: ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY
Container title: WILLIAM DIETERLE'S THE DEVIL & DANIEL WEBSTER
Added Title Daniel and the Devil.
ISBN 0780027000 : $39.99
Standard No. 037429149324
037429181423
Music # DEV040 Criterion Collection
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