Angel on My Shoulder Rating: Release Date: 03 July, 2001 Retail Price: $9.99 OUR Price: $8.99 You SAVE: $1.00! Cast: Paul Muni Anne Baxter Claude Rains James Cleveland Complete Cast (6 total)

Angel on My Shoulder Reviews

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"You don't belong where I'm going honey."
I got the wrong idea somewhere. When I originally read about this movie I heard it was about a tough gangster, played by Paul Muni, who after death tries to bust out of Hell. I was very excited.

I rented it and it's nothing like that at all! Instead of BRUTE FORCE in Hell this is some overly sappy story about a gangster who dies, is fooled by Satan to go back to Earth and ends up doing good instead of bad.

Anne Baxter is enjoyable (and easy on the eyes), but outside of that I was disappointed in the hokieness of the whole thing.


Good Movie
This movie, first released in 1946, is a good piece of entertainment. The story ... a hardened criminal suffering in hell is brought back to earth and goes through an Ebineezer Scrooge type transformation ... is brought to life very well by the extraordinary acting talents of Paul Muni and Claude Rains.

The script also is excellent ... giving these two performers plenty of good lines to mold and shape to their liking.

The supporting cast is OK. Anne Baxter as the fiance is OK, and George Cleveland as the man-servant is also OK, but ... they are minor leaguers to the major league talents of Mr. Muni and Mr. Rains. And when neither of these two gentlemen are on the screen, there is a definate lull or emptiness in the action.

Claud Rains is better here than he was in Casablanca (where his performance was sort-of choppy) and he is an excellent Satan ... very nefarious and, um, unctuous. Paul Muni is the better talent here, however. He is always working ... using subtle little gestures when he's not talking ... always moving, always adding a little something to the character ... and the result is complete, very believable gangster who has a change of heart.

Even after 60 years, this is still a pretty good 100 minutes of entertainment.







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