Alias Nick Beal is a 1949

1949 in film

The year 1949 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:*Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello...

 film retelling of the Faust

Faust

Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal with the devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. Faust's tale is the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical...

 myth. In this version, a judge sells his soul to the devil.

Critical reaction

A 1949 review of the film in the New York Times notes that, "Due to the fine acting and the wily direction, the story plays exceptionally well, but the script tends to be somewhat wobbly and indecisive upon reflection."http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9406E2D61F38E23BBC4852DFB5668382659EDE Film4

Film4

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 commented on the leading man's performance, "Milland is outstanding as the personification of evil - a talent often obscured by his charm and early juvenile good looks."

Cast

• Ray Milland
  Ray Milland
  Ray Milland was a Welsh actor and director. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best remembered for his Academy Award–winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend , a sophisticated leading man opposite a corrupt John Wayne in Reap the Wild Wind , the murder-plotting...
  
   as Nick Beal
• Audrey Totter
  Audrey Totter
  Audrey Mary Totter is an American actress and former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract star of Austrian-Slovene and Swedish descent...
  
   as Donna Allen
• Thomas Mitchell
  Thomas Mitchell (actor)
  Thomas Mitchell was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. Among his most famous roles in a long career are those of Gerald O'Hara, the father of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, the drunken Doc Boone in John Ford's Stagecoach, and Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life...
  
   as Joseph Foster
• George Macready
  George Macready
  George Peabody Macready, Jr. , was an American stage, film, and television actor often cast in roles as polished villains.-Background:...
  
   as Reverend Thomas Garfield
• Fred Clark
  Fred Clark
  Frederick Leonard Clark was an American film character actor.-Career:Born in Lincoln, California, Clark made his film debut in 1947 in The Unsuspected. His 20-year film career included almost 70 films, and numerous television appearances...
  
   as Frankie Faulkner
• Geraldine Wall as Martha Foster
• Henry O'Neill
  Henry O'Neill
  Henry O'Neill was a film actor known for playing gray-haired fathers, lawyers, and similarly dignified roles during the 1930s and 1940s.-Life and career:...
  
   as Judge Ben Hobbs
• Darryl Hickman
  Darryl Hickman
  Darryl Gerard Hickman is an American film and television actor, former television executive, and child star of the 1930s and 1940s.-Early life:...
  
   as Larry Price
• Nestor Paiva
  Nestor Paiva
  Nestor Paiva was an American actor of Portuguese descent who portrayed the innkeeper on Walt Disney's live-action television series Zorro by ABC and its feature film The Sign of Zorro which was shot in Burbank's Walt Disney Studios.-Career:Nestor appeared in motion pictures and television shows...
  
   as Karl
• King Donovan
  King Donovan
  King Donovan was an American film, stage, and television actor, as well as a film and television director.-Film:...
  
  as Peter Wolfe
• Charles Evans as Paul Norton