The Story of Mankind (1957)

A film that owes a huge debt to The Devil and Daniel Webster, The Story of Mankind goes beyond putting the American way of life on trial and instead puts all of humanity on trial. It also raises the stakes with a huge production that promised “the greatest star cast ever assembled! 50 big names 50!”

Among them were Ronald Coleman, Hedy Lamarr, Groucho Marx, Peter Lorre, Cesar Romero, and a young Dennis Hopper.

And like Walter Huston, Vincent Price (above) realized that it’s much more effective to play the devil as beguiling than as overtly scary. His demon prince is again named Mr. Scratch.