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詹姆斯·卡格尼主演的黑帮电影经典作。他在这部演技光芒四射的代表作之中饰演有严重恋母情结的歹徒柯弟贾勒特，他象神经病一样弃妻子于不顾，到处疯狂做案。警方费了九牛二虎之力围捕他，他则率领手下暴徒躲在深山中跟警方对峙。导演拉乌尔·沃尔什在片中安排了不少气氛十足的暴力动作场面， 但更出色的是对男主角偏执狂的生动刻画。玛格丽特·威彻利的邪恶母亲和弗吉尼亚·梅奥的性格女友亦演出旗鼓相当，结局拍出相当感人的悲剧性。。American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].。
