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The title of this Italian melodrama translates to Pact with the Devil. However, His Satanic Majesty does not appear in the film. Rather, this expensively produced period piece is more along the lines of Romeo and Juliet, with young love threatened by warring families. In his first Italian film, Hollywood veteran Eduardo Cianelli goes through his usual villainous paces as the scheming father of the male lead (Jacques Francois). The most fascinating performance is rendered by Umberto Spadaro, as the village idiot, or is he? Patto col Diavolo makes the most of the visual dynamics of Italy's mountainous Calabrian region.Read moreLess
The title of this Italian melodrama translates to Pact with the Devil. However, His Satanic Majesty does not appear in the film. Rather, this expensively produced period piece is more along the lines of Romeo and Juliet, with young love threatened by warring families. In his first Italian film, Hollywood veteran Eduardo Cianelli goes through his usual villainous paces as the scheming father of the male lead (Jacques Francois). The most fascinating performance is rendered by Umberto Spadaro, as the village idiot, or is he? Patto col Diavolo makes the most of the visual dynamics of Italy's mountainous Calabrian region.
The story
The title of this Italian melodrama translates to Pact with the Devil. However, His Satanic Majesty does not appear in the film. Rather, this expensively produced period piece is more along the lines of Romeo and Juliet, with young love threatened by warring families. In his first Italian film, Hollywood veteran Eduardo Cianelli goes through his usual villainous paces as the scheming father of the male lead (Jacques Francois). The most fascinating performance is rendered by Umberto Spadaro, as the village idiot, or is he? Patto col Diavolo makes the most of the visual dynamics of Italy's mountainous Calabrian region.
Cast & crew
Isa MirandaMarta Larocca
Jacques FrançoisAndrea Mola
Annibale BetroneOld Laroccha - Marta's father
Eduardo CiannelliGiacomo Mola
Ave NinchiSignora Mola - Giacomo's wife
Luigi TosiRocco
Anne VernonAndrea's sister
Umberto SpadaroScoppola - the killer
Guido CelanoIl sottuficiale dei carabinieri
Lamberto PicassoThe priest
Camillo PilottoCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Luigi Chiarini
- Writer
- Corrado Alvaro
- Writer
- Sergio Amidei
- Writer
- Suso Cecchi d'Amico
- Writer
- Luigi Chiarini
- Writer
- Carlo Mazzoni
- Writer
- Mario Serandrei
- Producer
- Alberto Salvatori
- Original Music Composer
- Achille Longo
- Director of Photography
- Mario Montuori
- Editor
- Mario Serandrei