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Pact With The Devil | Devil
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Best Music Scoring of a Dramatic Picture | 1942 | Bernard
Best Acting | 1941 | Walter
Best Actor in a Leading Role | 1942 | Walter
William Dieterle had a habit of directing with white gloves on. Robert Wise said that everyone thought it was because he had a germ or dirt phobia. During shooting of one scene, Dieterle noticed there wasn't enough mud on a carriage wheel. He pulled off his gloves, grabbed some mud, rubbed it onto the wheel, then wiped his hands on his pants and put the gloves back on to continue directing.
Judge John Hathorne was one of the judges at the Salem Witch Trials in 1692. He was also the only one who never apologized to the victim's families. His descendant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, changed the spelling of his surname in order to appear not so closely related to such an infamous ancestor.
In later years, Bernard Herrmann told how he created the strange, almost subliminal sound heard during Scratch's first entrance in the barn. He said he sent a crew to San Francisco at 4:00 in the morning to record the hum of phone lines. He combined these with the overtones of the musical note C painted directly onto the soundtrack, which, when run through a projector, created a sustained phantom tone, a "fundamental".
Thomas Mitchell originally was cast as Daniel Webster. While filming a carriage ride scene with young Lindy Wade, Mitchell lost control of the horses and was thrown from the carriage. He suffered a fractured skull and was in the hospital for 17 weeks but made a full recovery. Director William Dieterle re-cast Edward Arnold in the role with one day's notice. All of Mitchell's scenes as Daniel Webster then had to be re-shot with Arnold.
William Dieterle was known to have some eccentricities as a director. He believed in astrology and started shooting a few days ahead of schedule because his horoscope indicated he should.
"Mr. Scratch: You shall have your trial, Mr. Webster. But I'm sure you'll agree, this is hardly the case for an ordinary jury. Daniel Webster: Let it be the quick or the dead, so long as it is an American judge and an American jury! Mr. Scratch: 'The quick or the dead!' You have said it. [he stomps on the barn floor; a door opens] Mr. Scratch: You must pardon the leathery toughness of one or two. Jabez Stone: [afraid] Mr. Webster! [a line of ghosts begin entering from the trapdoor] Mr. Scratch: Captain Kidd - he killed men for gold. Simon Girty, the renegade - he burned men for gold. Governor Dale - he broke men on the wheel. Asa, the Black Monk - he choked them to death. Floyd Ireson and Stede Bonnet, the fiendish butchers. Walter Butler, King of the Massacre. Big and Little Harp, robbers and murderers. Teach, the Cutthroat. Morton, the vicious lawyer... and General Benedict Arnold. You remember him, no doubt. Daniel Webster: A jury of the damned... Mr. Scratch: [laughs] Dastards, liars, traitors, knaves. Your suggestion, Mr. Webster - 'the quick or the dead.' Daniel Webster: This is outrageous, I asked for a fair trial... Mr. Scratch: Americans, all."
"[Webster is examing the contract Mr. Scratch has with Stone] Daniel Webster: This appears - mind you, I say appears - to be properly drawn. But you shan't have this man. A man isn't a piece of property. Mr. Stone is an American citizen... and an American citizen cannot be forced into the service of a foreign prince. Mr. Scratch: Foreign? Who calls me a foreigner? Daniel Webster: Well, I never heard of the de... I never heard of you claiming American citizenship. Mr. Scratch: And who has a better right? When the first wrong was done to the first Indian, I was there. When the first slaver put out for the Congo, I stood on the deck. Am I not still spoken of in every church in New England? It's true the North claims me for a Southerner and the South for a Northerner, but I'm neither. Tell the truth, Mr. Webster - though I don't like to boast of it - my name is older in the country than yours. Daniel Webster: Then I stand on the Constitution. I demand a trial for my client. Mr. Scratch: You mean a jury trial? Daniel Webster: I do! And if I can't win this case with a jury you'll have me, too. If two New Hampshire men aren't a match for the devil, we better give the country back to the Indians."
