Pact with the Devil

The title of this Italian melodrama translates to Pact with the Devil However His Satanic Majesty does not appear in the film Rather this expensively produced period piece is more along the lines of Romeo and Juliet with young love threatened by warring families In his first Italian film Hollywood veteran Eduardo Cianelli goes through his usual villainous paces as the scheming father of the male lead Jacques Francois The most fascinating performance is rendered by Umberto Spadaro as the village idiot or is he Patto col Diavolo makes the most of the visual dynamics of Italys mountainous Calabrian region