Word: devil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Damn Yankees. A hot time in the old town tonight, as a couple of devil's advocates, Ray Walston and Dancer Gwen Verdon, get involved with the Washington Senators...
...could become, all by yourself, without the help of heaven, as great as me! Maybe over-shadow me? I didn't want anything--you hear me?--I didn't want what happened to me to happen. It was all given to me. A gift from God or the devil, but something I didn't want. And now, here we are with a corpse on our hands...
...lique, a wild and barefoot sprite who played, perhaps more than she should, with the peasant boy Nicholas. Looking to Angélique's beauty to save him from ruin, the baron betrothed her to the Comte de Peyrac de Morens, known as the Great Lame Devil of Languedoc, who was said to be so ugly that girls ran away when he passed by on his great black horse. As it turned out. Angélique and the lame count hit it off famously, but the count dabbled in alchemy and was burned at the stake, leaving...
...Huston and his troupe hoped to pull a joke on their old faithful audiences, the joke falls somewhere else, because Beat The Devil is better than any stock article...
...novelist with a sense of humor, and a bunch of witty actors meet on the Italian Riviera, the result can be a good time. When the director is John Huston, the writer Truman Capote, and when the actors include Bogart, Lorre and Lollobrigida, the result was Beat the Devil, and it is a very good time...