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accept Scratch's offer, Jabez finds Stevens dead on the floor. He, too, had signed a pact with Mr. Scratch, and his time was up. Now desperate and realizing that his own time is almost up, Jabez tries to erase the deadline that Mr. Scratch burned into the tree outside the barn, but Scratch appears and again tempts Jabez, offering to extend his deal in return for the soul of his son. Horrified, Jabez flees and chases after Mary. He begs her forgiveness and pleads with Webster to help him find some way out of his bargain with the Devil. Webster, the most renowned lawyer in the country, agrees to take his case. Mr. Scratch again offers an extension in exchange for Jabez's son, but Jabez declines. He then begs Webster to leave before it is too late, but Webster refuses to go.
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to raise their fists against their destinies. They took the wrong turn, just as Stone did, but Stone's soul can be saved. Hathorne asks the jury for its verdict, and in response, the foreman tears up the contract, releasing Jabez from his deal. Webster then kicks out the now-powerless Mr. Scratch, but as he is ejected, the fiend promises that Webster will never become president.
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whom they name Daniel in honor of Mr. Webster, but minutes later, Jabez discovers the local girl they had hired as a maid has vanished, replaced by the beautiful and sinister Belle, sent by Mr. Scratch. She bewitches Jabez, driving a wedge between him and Mary. As Daniel grows, he too falls under Belle's influence, and she turns him into a spoiled, disobedient brat.
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as the judge. Webster begins by stating that he envies the jury because, as Americans, they were present at the birth of a nation, but they were fooled like Jabez Stone, trapped in their desire to rebel against their fate. Webster explains that it is the eternal right of everyone, including the jury,
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As time passes, Jabez's increasing wealth begins to change him. He ensnares his desperate neighbors with onerous financial contracts, slowly alienating his devoted wife, Mary, and his pious mother. Later, as the townspeople celebrate the harvest in Jabez's barn, Mary gives birth to their first child,
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In a few more years, Jabez is one of the wealthiest men in the country. He has built a lavish mansion and throws a huge ball, but it ends in disaster. After a nightmarish dance between Belle and Miser Stevens, whose ruthless standards of debt repayment were a driving force in Jabez's decision to
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to ensure that the music and sound worked well together. To create the creepy sound heard when Mr. Scratch first appears in the barn, Herrmann sent a recording crew to San Fernando to record the sound of telephone wires. Hermann’s original music score won an
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When Mr. Scratch appears to claim his due, Webster must wager his own soul before his opponent will agree to a trial by jury. Mr. Scratch chooses the jury members from among the most notorious villains of American history, including
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The original release was 107 minutes long. It was a critical, but not a box-office, success, recording a loss of $ 53,000 on its initial run. It was later rereleased under the title
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to great acclaim, but only ran for six performances because the production proved to be expensive. It was also later adapted as an opera that was performed during
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was the original choice to play Daniel Webster, but he suffered a skull fracture while filming the carriage scene and was replaced by
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and included a court case including "American betrayers", again including Benedict Arnold but this time with
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was found in the estate of the director and served as the basis for the film's restoration and
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played on the fiddle by Mr. Scratch. Herrmann collaborated with sound engineer
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Benét was invited to write the script for the film adaptation, along with
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for two cents, and moments later, the Devil appears, calling himself
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to avoid confusion with another film released by RKO that year,
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in the same category), and Walter Huston was nominated for an
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founded his own production company and signed a contract with
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The story had been adapted to the stage in 1939 at the
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Index


William Dieterle
Dan Totheroh
Stephen Vincent Benét
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Stephen Vincent Benét
Edward Arnold
Walter Huston
James Craig
Anne Shirley
Jane Darwell
Simone Simon
Joseph H. August
Robert Wise
Bernard Herrmann
RKO Radio Pictures
supernatural film
Stephen Vincent Benét
The Devil and Daniel Webster
libretto
an opera adaptation of his short story
Douglas Moore
Dan Totheroh
The Devil and Miss Jones
Edward Arnold
Walter Huston
James Craig
Simone Simon
deal with the Devil
lawyer

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