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The Mephisto WaltzThis complicated and utterly preposterous film might just have worked as a devil-in-the-family kind of horror movie. But Maddow, who once showed talent (The Asphalt Jungle), provided the highly erratic Wendkos with a loopy screenplay that the director tried to obscure by overemphasis and a strong cast - who, in trying to play it straight, are at odds with the necessary demonic flavour. Jurgens plays a dying pianist incestuously involved with his daughter (Parkins), but moving on to other affairs, in a lurid tale recounted by a journalist. It's underpinned by a lush score, courtesy of Goldsmith and uncredited others.
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