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- 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 narrative references real events in the lives of Webster and his family.
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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 narrative references real events in the lives of Webster and his family.
- Stephen Vincent Benét
- 1936
Jun 12, 2023 · In “Based on a True Story,” a couple played by Kaley Cuoco and Chris Messina, right, makes a devil’s bargain with a plumber played by Tom Bateman, center. Elizabeth Morris/Peacock. By...
- James Poniewozik
Rated 1.5/5 Stars • Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member The movie is based on the story of the same name by Steven Vincent Benet, and while I cannot claim that it ...
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- Edward Arnold
- William Dieterle
- Fantasy
Dec 14, 2012 · Like many tales about the good vs. the evil, the evil mostly steals the show from the good in “The Devil and Daniel Webster” (1941), a cautionary moral tale based on Stephen Vincent Benét’s short story which is sort of a New England version of the tale of Faust.
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.
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...
