A struggling New Hampshire farmer (James Craig) sells his soul to the Devil (Walter Huston, in a scene-stealing, Oscar-nominated turn) for seven years of prosperity. When the bill comes due, a famous lawyer (Edward Arnold) attempts to outwit the Devil himself in a midnight trial before a jury of damned American souls. William Dieterle's witty and exhilarating adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benét's classic tale is one of Hollywood's great folk fantasies, a film drenched in Americana, moral argument, and pure cinematic pleasure.