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The Devil and Daniel Webster [videorecording] / RKO Radio Pictures ; produced and directed by William Dieterle ; screenplay by Dan Totheroh and Stephen Vincent Benet.

Contributor Dieterle, William, 1893-1972.

Edition Statement:Unabridged and restored.

Imprint:[Chicago, Ill.] : The Criterion Collection : Dist. by Home Vision, 2003.

Description1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Note:Special features: Audio commentary by film historian Bruce Eder and Bernard Herrmann biographer Steven C. Smith ; Reading of Stephen Vincent Benet's original short stary "The Devil and Daniel Webster" by acclaimed actor/director Alec Baldwin.

Note:Based on the story by Stephen Vincent Benet.

Target AudienceGeneral.

Note:A young farmer in 19th century New Hampshire signs a seven-year contract with the devil in return for gold, and then hires Daniel Webster to get him out of the contract before it's too late.

Note : PerformerEdward Arnold, Walter Huston, James Craig, James Darwell, Simone Simon, Gene Lockhart, John Qualen, Anne Shirley.

Note: AwardsAcademy Award: Best Dramatic Musical Score

System Details NotesDVD Hi-fi mono.

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Contributor
Dieterle, William, 1893-1972.
Arnold, Edward, 1890-1956.
Huston, Walter, 1884-1950.
Craig, James 1912-
Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943. Devil and Daniel Webster Videorecording.
RKO Radio Pictures.
Janus Films.
The Criterion Collection (firm)
Title:
Originally shown with the title: All that money can buy [videorecording]
Series Statement
The Criterion Collection
Buhl Library Video Collection
Subject:
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 -- Fiction.
Subject:
Devil -- Fiction.
Index Term - Genre/Form
Feature films.
Film adaptations.
Fantasy films.
Black and white films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Historical films.
Fiction films.
Series Added Entry-Uniform title
Criterion collection.