Product: Angel On My Shoulder (UK PAL Region 0)
Rating: 5.0
Intelligent, Great writing, poor DVD
Paul Muni, Ann Baxter and Claude Rains. This excellent cast and great story deserve a better quality DVD. There are some pretty silly movies out there in this supernatural genre ('Beyond Tommorow' with Aubrey Smith comes to mind). These silly movies are a thoughtless mish mash of new age / Biblical/ and everything in between, philosophies: Pure incoherence.This story, however, is brilliant: it has chosen the Bible's perspective on sin, good and evil, and sticks with it to the end. Whole passages of the Bible are paraphrased or implied; flawlessly and without seeming at all preachy. Here is Nick (Claude Rains as Beelzabub) addressing G-D regarding Eddie Kagel ( The ex-convict and main character):"Must I run afoul of you again? Am I doomed forever to be vanquished? What is this subhuman creature, incubated in the recesses of foulness, done to become your favorite?It was with evil intent that he ventured forth! He voluntered to do my bidding..." (compare with Revelation 12:10; "the Accuser").There are no stupid lines in this movie. Whoever, wrote it, must have been a student of the Bible. It is an intelligent production and highly entertaining. And one does not need to be of any religion at all to appreciate it.