Directed by: William Dieterle
Featuring: Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon, Gene Lockhart, John Qualen, Anne Shirley, James Craig
Year: 1941
Time: 106 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 214
Release Date: Tuesday, 12 March 2024
MSRP: $39.95
Blu-ray
1 Disc
1.37:1
English PCM Mono 1.0
Subtitles: English
Region A
Audio commentary by film historian Bruce Eder and Steven C. Smith, biographer of composer Bernard Herrmann
Reading by actor Alec Baldwin of the short story by Stephen Vincent Benét on which the film is based
Comparison of the differences between the July 1941 preview version of the film, Here Is a Man, and the film’s 1943 rerelease as The Devil and Daniel Webster
The Columbia Workshop’s radio adaptations of Benét’s short stories “The Devil and Daniel Webster” and “Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent,” both featuring music by Herrmann
An essay by author Tom Piazza and a 1941 article by Stephen Vincent Benét
New restoration demonstration
Episode of the Criterion Channel series Observations on Film Art about the film’s editing
Trailer