Speaking of The Devil, you cannot beat Walter Huston as “Old Scratch” in “The Devil and Daniel Webster.” What a delicious film.
Not only is Old Scratch evil, but he gets poor farmer Jabez Stone to sell him his soul. On a day of particularly bad luck, Jabez curses and says that he would sell his soul to the devil to have a better life; immediately after the the devil appears posing as a man named Mr. Scratch and offers seven years of good fortune and money to Jabez for his soul and the farmer signs the contract. Then things turn bleak. There are two bad guys, Old Scratch and Jabez Stone.
That was a marvelous movie!