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" The Devil and Daniel Webster " (1936) is a short story by American writer Stephen Vincent Benét. He tells of a New Hampshire farmer who sells his soul to the devil and is later defended by a fictionalized Daniel Webster, a noted 19th-century American statesman, lawyer and orator.
The Devil and Daniel Webster: Directed by William Dieterle. With Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon. A nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer makes a pact with Satan for economic success, then enlists famed orator Daniel Webster to extract him from his contract.
The Devil and Daniel Webster is a 1941 American supernatural film based on the 1938 play adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benét 's 1936 short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster". [1]
“The Devil and Daniel Webster” is narrated as a folktale told in the border country of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, regarding the famous American...
The Devil and Daniel Webster, often-anthologized short story by Stephen Vincent Benét, published in 1937. Two years later it reappeared as a one-act folk opera by Benét and composer Douglas Moore. Jabez Stone, a New Hampshire farmer, receives a decade of material wealth in return for selling his.
In exchange for seven years of good fortune, Stone promises “Mr. Scratch” his soul. But when the troubled farmer begins to realize the error of his choice, he enlists the aid of the one man who might save him: the legendary orator and politician Daniel Webster.
THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER. by Stephen Vincent Benét, 1937. Primarily a poet, Stephen Vincent Benét won the Pulitzer Prize with his narrative poem of the Civil War, John Brown 's Body.
Farmer Jabez Stone (James Craig), about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil (Walter Huston), known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his...
A nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer makes a pact with Satan for economic success, then enlists famed orator Daniel Webster to extract him from his contract. A down-on-his-luck farmer makes a deal with the devil for seven years of prosperity.
Jan 13, 1992 · Hailed as an instant classic, and later considered second only to Citizen Kane among all of RKO’s releases, The Devil and Daniel Webster was also one of the most harshly handled movies of its era. The many titles it has carried points up its star-crossed history.
