Product: Angel On My Shoulder (UK PAL Region 0)
Rating: 5.0
dealing with the devil
Gangster Eddie Kagle (Paul Muni) is dead. Shot by the only man he ever trusted: Smiley Williams. Eddie wakes up in Hell thinking its St. Louis. It looks like St Louis. Smells like St. Louis. No, it's not St. Louis, but if Eddie is willing to make a deal, Nick (Claude Rains), one of the trustees, will see that he gets to St Louis. Smiley, that double-crossing rat, is in St. Louis.All Eddie has to do is masquerade as a respected judge long enough to stop his campaign for law and order. Not an easy task because the judge has been playing ball with a lot of kids."Heed not Mephistopholis, my children. When he whispers in your ear, turn away your head and harken instead to the angel on your shoulder," a minister tells him, and Eddie realizes just who this Nick really is: the Devil himself."Oh, if you had a body, I'd tear it apart!" he rages.A great film.