The Devil and Daniel Webster

• Background
• William Dieterle
• Expressionist Actor and Director (Valentin in Murnau's Faust)
• Director of American Biopics: Pasteur, Zola, Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
• Stephen Vincent Benet and "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (biography)
• Dan Totheroh
• Final Screenwriter
  
• Bernard Herrmann
• Composer of film scores for Dieterle, Oscar Welles, and Alfred Hitchcock (incl. Vertigo and Psycho)
• Political Climate in US (HUAC)
  
• Daniel Webster biography portrait (another site)
• Political/social Background
• Grange
• Depression
• Threat of National Socialism
• The Opening Scenes from The Devil and Daniel Webster
• Is this a prologue?
• References to Goethe's Faust?
• Any doubling?