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The whole archive of theanarchistlibrary.org
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Trouble in Amish Paradise 2009 04 07 BBC

Category: Documentary
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Trouble in Amish Paradise 2009 04 07 BBC 599 mb/60mins An extraordinary insight into the secretive world of the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Trouble In Amish Paradise tells the story of Ephraim and Jessie Stoltzfus who, along with their wives, have become disillusioned with the amount of control the church now exerts over their lives. They are extremely proud of their Amish heritage and have no wish to leave their community, but feel they can no longer unquestioningly follow every pronouncement from the bishops. Church And Culture Are Not The Same As more and more Amish read the Bible in English, rather than the original German, some have begun to ask who they should be following – the leaders, or the word of God. As Ephraim observes, “They combine church and culture and that’s wrong, you cannot do that. If that’s the way it’s supposed to be then Jesus would have made those rules specific and said ‘You gotta drive a horse with a green harness or you to go hell’. And he didn’t say that.” Jesse and Ephraim, along with several other families in the community, gather regularly for bible study classes, which is strictly forbidden by the bishops. These two radical Amish men, Ephraim and Jesse Stoltzfus, start to question some of the most fundamental aspects of their Amish culture, they face excommunication from their church and total rejection by their friends and family.
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Sex, Drugs and Democracy (2001)

Category: Documentary
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Holland - Sex Drugs and Democracy (2001) Sex, Drugs & Democracy is an award-winning, feature-length film that explores the limits of personal freedom through an uncensored look at the worlds most liberal country-Holland. The Netherlands is a social paradise, according to documentarian Jonathan Banks. Prostitution is legal, homosexual marriages are recognized, universal health care and housing are provided by the government, and the personal use of marijuana, hashish, and heroine is tolerated with government control. Also, it has minimal problems with crime and drug addiction, and it has the lowest rates of teen pregnancy and abortion in the world. It's an eye-opening portrait in practical universal freedom as social policy that, despite claims by conservative doomsayers, seems to have been working for years.
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Democracy Now! Monday, August 31, 2009

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines Japanese Voters Oust Conservative Party August Becomes Deadliest Month for US Troops in Afghanistan Gen. McChrystal Calls for New Afghan Strategy Pentagon Cancels Rendon Group Contract Cheney: Torture Probe “Offends the Hell Out of Me” Blackwater Tapped Foreigners for Secret CIA Program Obama Administration Seeks “Emergency Control” of the Internet Court: Comcast Can Control More of Cable Market Former Israeli PM Olmert Indicted on Corruption Charges Sri Lankan Journalist Sentenced to 20 Years of Hard Labor Sen. Kennedy Buried at Arlington National Cemetery "The Deadly Choices at Memorial" - Investigation of New Orleans Hospital Tells Story of How Medical Staff Euthanized Patients in Katrina Aftermath On the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a major investigation reveals harrowing new details of one of the many human tragedies that occurred in the aftermath of the storm. Forty-five patients at the New Orleans Memorial Medical Center died in the days after Katrina’s floodwater knocked out the power in the hospital. A 13,000-word article titled “The Deadly Choices at Memorial” tells the full story of what really happened to some of those patients. It’s the cover story of the New York Times Sunday Magazine this weekend and the product of a two-and-a-half-year investigation. We speak with reporter Sheri Fink of ProPublica. [includes rush transcript] Four Years After Katrina, New Orleans Still Struggling to Recover from the Storm President Obama promised Saturday that his administration would not forget the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. He vowed to help people finish the task of rebuilding and recovery while working to prevent similar catastrophes in the future. For an assessment of the pace of recovery four years after Hurricane Katrina, we speak to lifelong New Orleans resident and civil rights attorney Tracie Washington. [includes rush transcript] A Paradise Built in Hell: Rebecca Solnit on "The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster" We speak with author, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit about her latest book that examines Hurricane Katrina and other disasters. A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster chronicles both the crimes of the vigilantes and the powerful during Katrina, as well as the numerous instances of altruism, generosity and courage displayed by the vast majority of people who lived through this catastrophe. [includes rush transcript]
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HDTV Satoyama II Japan's Secret Watergarden 720p x264 AC3 (www.mvgroup.org)

Category: Documentary
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NHK - Satoyama II Japan's Secret Water Garden (2004) Information Imagine a realm where the seasons' rhythms rule - where centuries of agriculture and fishing have re-shaped the land, yet where people and nature remain in harmony. Sangoro Tanaka lives in just such a paradise. At 83, he's a guardian of one of Japan's secret water gardens. Here - over a thousand years - towns and villages have developed a unique system to make springs and water part of their homes. From inside these homes, the streams pour into Japan's largest freshwater lake, Lake Biwa - an area 5 times the size of Paris - near the ancient capital of Kyoto. This is a habitat so precious the Japanese have a special word for it: "Satoyama" - villages where mountains give way to plains. They are exceptional environments essential to both the people who maintain them and to the wildlife that now share them. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough Directed by Masumi Mizunuma Edited by Masayuki Shimoyamada Music by Takefumi Haketa 52 minutes, English audio, 2004 Winner of two international awards Further Information AVI of this documentary BD cover here Buy the BluRay disc here AC3 audio without narration for this release Korean AC3 audio for this release Chinese AAC audio for this release Russian AAC audio for this release German MP3 audio for this release Chinese subtitles for this release (mks) Related Documentaries Satoyama:Japan's Secret Garden Between Two Worlds - A Japanese Pilgrimage Japan Revealed Satoyama: Japan's Secret Watergarden click on the thumbnails below to get full-size images Technical Specs Video Codec: x264 Video Bitrate: 5367 Kbps Video Resolution: 1280x720 Video Aspect Ratio: 1.778 / 16:9 Video Framerate: 29.97 Video AR Error: -0.2% Quality Factor: 0.19 b/px P=23.8 B=25.4 I=22.4 Audio: English Audio Codec: AC3 Audio Bitrate: 640 kb/s @ 48KHz Runtime per Part: 52 minutes Number of Parts: 1 Part Size: 2240 MB (1/2 DVDR) Encoded by: PolarBear Embedded subtitles: English, Chinese Release Notes Big, BIG thanks to DeanRii who spent SEVERAL hours making some outstanding Chinese subtitles for this release. OFFICIAL RESEED REQUEST THREAD DocuWiki Page HDTV.NHK.Satoyama.II.Japans.Secret.Watergarden.720p.x264.AC3.MVGroup.org.mkv (2239.03 Mb) HDTV.NHK.Satoyama.II.Japans.Secret.Watergarden.720p.x264.EN.MVGroup.org.srt (58.32 Kb) HDTV.NHK.Satoyama.II.Japans.Secret.Watergarden.720p.x264.MVGroup.org.CHINESE.subs.complete.mks (290.78 Kb) HDTV.NHK.Satoyama.II.Japans.Secret.Watergarden.720p.x264.MVGroup.org.CHINESE.mp4 (53.92 Mb) HDTV.NHK.Satoyama.II.Japans.Secret.Watergarden.720p.x264.MVGroup.org.GERMAN.mp3 (46.88 Mb) HDTV.NHK.Satoyama.II.Japans.Secret.Watergarden.720p.x264.MVGroup.org.KOREAN.ac3 (71.05 Mb) HDTV.NHK.Satoyama.II.Japans.Secret.Watergarden.720p.x264.MVGroup.org.MUSIC.ac3 (238.42 Mb) HDTV.NHK.Satoyama.II.Japans.Secret.Watergarden.720p.x264.MVGroup.org.RUSSIAN.mp4 (48.18 Mb) HDTV.NHK.Satoyama.II.Japans.Secret.Watergarden.720p.x264.AC3.MVGroup.org.screeners.zip (15.86 Mb)
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The West Memphis 3 - Paradise Lost 1 & 2 - DvDRip - Godcanjudgeme

Category: Documentary
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The West Memphis 3 - Paradise Lost 1&2 - DvDRip - Godcanjudgeme --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- "It's frightening to think they did it. It's terrifying to think they didn't." Shortly after three eight-year-old boys were found mutilated and murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas, local newspapers stated the killers had been caught. The police assured the public that the three teenagers in custody were definitely responsible for these horrible crimes. The same police officers coerced an error-filled "confession" from Jessie Misskelley Jr. who is mentally handicapped. They subjected him to 12 hours of questioning without counsel or parental consent, audio-taping only two fragments totaling 46 minutes. Jessie recanted it that evening, but it was too late. Misskelley, Jason Baldwin and Damien Echols were all arrested on June 3, 1993, and convicted of murder in early 1994. Although there was no physical evidence, murder weapon, motive, or connection to the victims, the prosecution resorted to presenting black hair and clothing, heavy metal t-shirts, and Stephen King novels as proof that the boys were sacrificed in a satanic cult ritual. Unfathomably, Echols was sentenced to death, Baldwin received life without parole, and Misskelley got life plus 40. For over 15 years, The West Memphis Three have been imprisoned for crimes they didn't commit. Echols waits in solitary confinement for the lethal injection that tax dollars will pay for. They were all condemned by their poverty, incompetent defense, satanic panic and a rush to judgment. --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- For more information and ways you can help : http://www.wm3.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Memphis_3 Don't just download, get involved! ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ Paradise Lost : The Child Murders At Robin Hood Hills http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117293/ Original Release : June 10, 1996 GCJM Release : 18.05.2009 Source : DvD2 - Pal Genre : Documentary Size : 0.97 GB Video : XVid - 735 kbps Resolution : 720x528 Framerate : 25 fps Audio : MP3 - 192 kbps - vbr - stereo - English Sample : 48000 Hz Subtitles : N/A Runtime : 02:29:12 imdb rating : 8.4/10 (2,909 votes) Director : Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ Paradise Lost 2 : Revelations http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0239894/ Original Release : March 12, 2001 GCJM Release : 18.05.2009 Source : DvD2 - Pal Genre : Documentary Size : 0.97 GB Video : XVid - 852 kbps Resolution : 720x544 Framerate : 25 fps Audio : MP3 - 192 kbps - vbr - stereo - English Sample : 48000 Hz Subtitles : N/A Runtime : 02:12:41 imdb rating : 7.8/10 (872 votes) Director : Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ Please Seed x1/ x2 ..Keep Torrents Alive.. ..Godcanjudgeme..
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Unreported World ~ Brazil The Killables 2009 05 15 Ch 4

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Unreported World ~ Brazil The Killables 2009 05 15 Ch 4 233.38 mb/ 24:12.800 Reporter Evan Williams and director Paul Kittel travel to the Brazilian city of Recife, a beach paradise visited by thousands of British tourists every year. They uncover allegations that the police are involved in death squads that have murdered thousands of 'undesirables', including hundreds of street children, every year. The Unreported World team is immediately confronted by the murder of an 18-year-old boy on the side of a street. Police officers say it was an execution, a close-range shot to the head, typical of many of the city's nearly 3000 murders a year. [IMG]http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/5024/oncamera.png[/IMG] The team meets some of the city's estimated 4000 street children. Using crack and sniffing glue, many of these street kids turn to prostitution and petty crime to survive. One social worker claims that 600 street children have been killed over the past few years, and that 60% were murdered by police death squads. The murder rate is so high a group of activists has erected an electronic sign that gives a running total of the number killed. Last year it revealed 4525 people had been killed in the state and 2600 in the city of Recife alone. The sign's organiser tells Williams the killing continues because many of the dead are from the slums and so the middle class just don't care. The team interviews a state prosecutor who says just 3% of the city's homicide cases ever get to trial and that 50% of all the murders are by death squads, which he claims include police officers who feel they have to take the law into their own hands. Edits http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-w...s-2009/episode-10 Unreported World S17E10 - Brazil The Killables (15 May 2009)[WS.PDTV(XviD)].avi SOURCE: THEBOX.BZ~http://www.thebox.bz/details.php?id=77245 CAPPER: geclipse shunster other active torrents/uploads at: http://www.bt-chat.com/browse.php?category=11
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The Lost World of Communism Ep 01: A Socialist Paradise

Category: Documentary
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I came across this torrent so I thought I'd cross-post it here. It's from the BBC, so you shouldn't be surprised if it presents the bourgeois viewpoint. For a more sensible (i.e. a critical socialist) view on the post-WWII period in Eastern Europe, I suggest you download Harvey Goldberg's excellent lectures on the subject: https://onebigtorrent.org/torrents/3546/RESEED-Harvey-Goldberg-Marxist-historian-lectures-1974 ------------------------ The Lost World of Communism Ep 01: A Socialist Paradise (East Germany) Superb docu from the BBC about the now vanished world of European communism. For those you born after the Wall fell, look and wonder at what you missed out on :) This is a three part series and I"ll be posting them shortly. Glad to see my license fee being spent on this sort of output rather than 'Morons on Ice' & 'Britain's Most Talentless Cretins'. But I guess you can't have everything :) Not my rip, got it off usenet. File info Duration: 59m 26 secs Code: Xvid Resolution: 640x352 Audio: 2-channel, 48Hz, MP3 Episode 2 is now on-line! http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1899976/480108/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_World_of_Communism
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Parity Talk April-19-2009 The Nonprofit Reversal 24kbps mp3

Category: News & Current Affairs
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The tragedy of our world is the fact that for as far back into history as we can remember, people have treated the for-profit model as normal and conservative one rather than placing proper emphasis on the nonprofit one. If our planet's economic system is ever going to heal and stabilize, we must realize that the nonprofit model is actually the true status quo that has been ignored. If we want an end to evil, we must make a reversal back to a nonprofit, parity-based way of life. Topics covered on this weeks show: We are in serious need to reverse the Outlook of the world the for profit model has to be replaced by the nonprofit model. Thomas propose a new economic model were both provider and clients have an open relationship and discuss their real margins for the sake of creating real value and a balanced market. Is there really anything we can do? We need to take back our own initiative and fight the fear factor. As a side note: Queen Elisabeth is the largest landowner in the world she owns one sixth of the earth’s non ocean surface. For generations our forefathers have worked their arses off yet to no avail most people still have no real holdings of power and property. Why is it that? Only through real meaningful cooperation can we defeat the system that is crushing us. Are we experts? Do we have the right to talk? John argues that we do have the right because we feel its right to do so that things cannot continue any longer this way. Business marketing, reverse marketing getting ahead in business by squeezing the opposition surely there is got to be other ways? In the end nobody is really winning in the system Let’s go back to becoming parity knights and uphold the true conservative spirit of the higher ideal. The belief in a higher ideal much bigger than ourselves. Let’s face paradise is lost the good times are dead but we can get paradise back if choose so. John reads some stories from the activist’s almanac and cites some organizations that propose real change yet what can we do if those organizations have been largely hijacked by people with other ideas. The superficial dimension of people cannot cloud the fact that what lacks in the inside, so don’t be fooled by the exterior of the proposed champions of society. The illuminati for the lack of a better world are just people like all of us they are just nastier and unhappier and are not winning either. Change from within the organization is not possible it has to be a cooperative change from without. Status as the idea of holding the largest pile of money has to be made obsolete. Not everything is relative especially not human issues regarding hardship and suffering. We introduce our new forum paritycheck.org where you can find more information on these subjects and links relating to this article. Please leave a comment suggestion or just say hello. Thanks to all the honest people for listening to our show please tune in next week and keep spreading the word. You can reach us at: http://www.paritytalk.org http://www.paritytalk.com http://www.honesty.org and our new forum http://www.paritycheck.org
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The Devil And Daniel Webster (Dieterle, 1941) [+Extras]-aNaRCHo

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****CRITERION UPGRADE WITH COMMENTARY AND EXTRAS**** The Devil And Daniel Webster (aka All That Money Can Buy) ;;(Dieterle, 1941)[+Extras]-aNaRCHo Jabez Stone is a hard-working farmer trying to make an honest living, but a streak of bad luck tempts him to do the unthinkable: bargain with the Devil himself. For seven years of good fortune, Stone promises “Mr. Scratch” his soul when the contract ends. When the troubled farmer begins to realize the error of his choice, he enlists the aid of the one man who might save him: the legendary orator and politician Daniel Webster. Directed with stylish flair by William Dieterle, The Devil and Daniel Webster brings the classic short story by Stephen Vincent Benét to life with inspired visuals, an unforgettable Oscar-winning score by Bernard Herrmann, and a truly diabolical performance from Walter Huston. The Devil and Daniel Webster: The Devil Gets The Best Lines By Tom Piazza (2003) Director William Dieterle’s 1941 film adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benét’s short story, “The Devil and Daniel Webster‚” is a melodramatic fever dream, a hallucinatory tour de force in which marvelous, evocative effects and extraordinary performances combine onscreen in ways both sophisticated and sometimes charmingly not. Out of this mix comes a fascinating allegory, filmed on the eve of World War II, of a society gone mad with materialism, a premonition of the opportunities and dangers awaiting the United States as it recovered from the Great Depression. Benét’s original short story, which generations of high-school students will undoubtedly remember making their way through, is an amalgam of Nathaniel Hawthornesque brooding and patriotic folklore. Unlike Hawthorne, however, Benét doesn’t seem to really believe in evil as the story’s astonishingly sentimental ending shows. William Dieterle arrived in the U.S. from Germany at the beginning of the 1930s after an early career spent mainly as an actor. Probably his best and best-known film is the 1939 version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Charles Laughton. His approach to The Devil and Daniel Webster (originally titled All That Money Can Buy in this version) delivers a much fuller and more disturbing narrative than Benét’s. Certainly Dieterle and screenwriters Dan Totheroh and Benét manage to bring alive characters who are little more than stick figures in Benét’s original. In fact, the film is a minor classic if for no other reason than Walter Huston’s brilliant performance as Mr. Scratch. It would have been easy to overplay this role, but Huston stops just short; in his hands the Devil is a raffish sensualist—cigar and rum fancier, pie thief, barroom habitué, and even multi-instrumentalist (he is seen beating the bass drum in a patriotic parade and playing fiddle at a barn dance). Some of the best writing is reserved for Scratch, as when, having concluded the initial deal with Jabez Stone and obviously satisfied with himself, he pauses outside the barn, turns to Jabez, and says, “What a beautiful sunset.” With twinkling eyes and unctuous charm that can turn to sullen and vindictive withdrawal at the first sign of resistance, then back again, Huston manages to make Scratch both appealing and unsympathetic—no small art. The other great performance here is Edward Arnold’s as Daniel Webster: senator, lawyer, and, for the purposes of this story, populist hero—a kind of doppelgänger, it turns out, for the Devil—both charming, both great persuaders. Arnold’s Webster is serious but fond of a joke, patrician but a man of the people, courtly with the ladies but able to deliver a stern face-to-face-tongue lashing to Stone. He also has a bit of a drinking problem, and it is clearly implied that some of his sympathy for the Stone family comes from his own experience with temptation. In the scenes in which Webster and Scratch are onscreen together, a clear and believable affinity is apparent between them. There is much here in Dieterle’s direction that is deft, interesting, and deliberate—especially the leitmotif use of light and shadow (Joseph August’s camera work is fine throughout). Simone Simon, who the next year starred in Val Lewton’s Cat People, is truly creepy as the seductive Belle. A manifestation of the Devil, she materializes out of nowhere to step in as housekeeper, nursemaid, and eventually mistress to Stone. As does Scratch, she first appears to Stone backlit, with a weird, muffled glass-harmonica sounding in deep echo behind their dialogue. Bernard Herrmann’s Oscar-winning musical score contains many terrific moments, especially during the barn dance scene—in which Scratch presides over an accelerating and increasingly discordant fiddle tune—and also the macabre, whirling dance of the guests at the mansion party. This latter scene, by the way, would find an echo in one of the great oddball cult classics of the 1960s, Carnival of Souls, when the ghostly figures of the dead dance in an abandoned beach pavilion. The Devil and Daniel Webster contains numerous traces of the leftist and populist politics of the 1930s, but the film is ultimately morally and politically ambiguous. Its implied moral equation seems is: that neighborliness, and mutual aid—community—as exemplified by the grange, are good. The Devil, being bad, undercuts community by encouraging people to indulge their individual appetites at the expense of group values. So the question of personal choice is a question of community health as well, and one cannot secede from the social contract without doing immense damage to all the other souls around one. However, the designation of Daniel Webster to argue Stone’s case brings with it some deep and unintentional irony. The Webster of history was a renowned orator, lawyer, U.S. senator from Massachusetts, and secretary of state under Presidents Benjamin Harrison and Millard Fillmore. He was also, in the years before the Civil War, a famous and effective advocate of maintaining the Union at any cost. In the film, Webster constantly advances America— the idea of America—as the incarnation of the highest good. In his closing argument, he even goes so far as to conflate Stone’s situation with that of America itself. “Don’t,” he exhorts the gang of cutthroats in the jury box, “let this country go to the Devil!” Don’t, in other words, allow the forces of self-interest to coerce a permanent rupture in the social contract. The historical Daniel Webster had the same notion, and it led him straight into the heart of the immense paradox facing the country at the time: If keeping the Union together was to be the overriding goal, then the South’s adamant refusal to give up slavery had to be accommodated. Webster, who made antislavery and populist speeches early in his career, ultimately argued vigorously for the biggest and most notorious Devil’s bargains conceivable—the Missouri Compromise and, above all, the Fugitive Slave Act. It is odd to hear Daniel Webster arguing at the film’s end that a man is not a piece of property (to be claimed by the Devil), while his historical alter ego ended his argument with slavery by actively upholding and enforcing the “property” rights of slave owners. So the largest moral question in American history is present in the story and the film only by its absence. Instead, it seems that all that is required to dissipate evil is a good closing argument from Daniel Webster and a renewal of faith in the grange. There is a moment, though, present in both the story and the film, in which we are brought frustratingly close to a real engagement of the question. Just before the trial, Webster calls the Devil a “foreign prince,” and Scratch takes umbrage, claiming an American lineage to beat Webster’s own. “When the first wrong was done to the first Indian,” he says, twinkling, “I was there. When the first slaver put out for the Congo, I stood on her deck.” But nothing is made of this minor speech (which Benét cribbed from Hawthorne’s short Devil story “Young Goodman Brown”), and we are quickly hustled into the jury box to listen to Webster’s eloquence. Had it faced this troubling fact just a bit more, this minor film classic might have been truly major. Instead, the Forces of Good win all too easily. And, as he has since Paradise Lost, the Devil gets the best lines. EXTRAS: - Commentary as Second Audio Track - The Devil And Daniel Webster - Here Is A Man Cut Comparison AVI - Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil And Daniel Webster Read By Alec Baldwin MP3 - The Devil And Daniel Webster Recorded By The Colombia Workshop Aug 6, 1938 MP3 - Daniel Webster And The Sea Serpent Recorded By The Colombia Workshop Aug 1, 1937 MP3 PLEASE SEED AND ENJOY!!!
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