Thursday, October 27, 2011

The Soul of a Monster (1944)


Columbia Pictures
Directed by Will Jason
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Sony Screen Classic by Request)

The wife of a dying physician calls upon the dark powers to save him. Satan obliges in the form of Rose Hobart, literally a devil in high heels. The physician recovers but not without a price: he kills his dog, shuns his friends and is at the beck and call of Rose. However, when she asks him to help murder another doctor he draws the line. He wakes up back on his death bed as if nothing ever happened. The script tries to work in some religious themes, but really is nothing more than the Faustian legend updated to the 1940s.

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