![]() ![]() But at the start of the film he is murdered by "Smiley" Williams (Hardie Albright - who is always smiling), and finds himself in the netherworld's lower regions. Muni's Eddie Kagle is a reprise of his Tony Carmonte, complete with Carmonte's deadly looking slit-like stare. But Paul Muni played Benito Juarez, and shared no scene with Rains as Napoleon III of France - the two leaders never met.) (*The two actors actually appeared in a film before this: JUAREZ in 1939. Claude Rains, who played that beacon of heavenly fairness and decency Mr. Paul Muni, who played Tony Carmonte in SCARFACE and Mr. And it also is the only time that two of the best actors of the golden age of sound films worked in a film side by side in the same scenes of a movie.* I am referring to Mr. This film is a nice mixture of two great movies: the crime film SCARFACE (1932) and the fantasy HERE COMES MR. Reviewed by theowinthrop 10 / 10 Tony Carmonte meets a diabolical Mr. He returns to Hell, taking Eddie with him, after Eddie has extracted his promise that Nick will not molest the judge or Barbara in the future. Even Eddie's planned revenge fails and Nick is forced to concede defeat. And Eddie also falls in love with the judge's fiancée, Barbara. But every action taken by Eddie (as the judge) results in good rather than evil and, to Nick's dismay, the reputation and influence of the judge is enhanced, rather than impaired by Eddie. ![]() Eddie is agreeable to having his soul transferred to the judge's body, as it will give him a chance to avenge himself on his killer. ![]() Gangster Eddie Kagel is killed by a trusted lieutenant and finds himself in Harry Redmond Jr's special-effects Hell, where Nick/The Devil sees that he is an-exact double for a judge who Nick doesn't approve of. ![]()
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