该片是由约翰·法罗执导的恐怖片,于1949年上映，主要讲述了:Righteou.s district attorney Joseph .Foster's main goal in life .is to .rid his c.ity of the gang.sters infesting it. In orde.r to be even. more efficient. in his war against crime h.e plan.s to run for. governor. O.ne day he meets a strang.e, shadowy man, Nick Beal, .who offers to h.elp him to achieve hi.s end. Beal con.vinces hesitating Foster. by dint .of easy money, .easy sex with an alluring y.oung woman and the promise .of eas.y success.. Joseph Foster. soon becomes an influentia.l politician. but a corrupt .one. A minister of God mana.ges to. show him th.at he has be.en the plaything of the .so-called Nick Beal, who mi.ght be Old Nick. , that is to say Sat.an himself. Fos.ter then decides to resi.gn and to. become an hone.st man again.