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Bruce Eder provides a strong commentary for the criterion disc. According to Eder there are two characters on the jury created for the film. Asa, the black monk and John Smeet. Smeet's introduction is not heard in cut versions. Big and little Harp were murderers on the frontier. They appear in Disney's "Davey Crockett" film. Thomas Morton was a lawyer who sought to undermine Puritan rule in Massachusetts. He won the legalization of dancing in public and white men dancing with "Indian" women. He also armed Native Americans and was killed for trying to overthrow the Bay Company. Dale was governor of Virginia and instituted martial law in response to the indolence he saw there. Simon Girty was one of the jurors. The presiding judge, Haythorne, was a judge at the Salem witch trials. Even when the trials were exposed for a sham, he remained unrepentant for his role in the burning of innocents. Anyway, that's a quick summary of Eder's comments. The film had a tortured production. Dieterle ran over budget and behind schedule. The actor playing Daniel had to be swapped in mid-production due to an injury sustained by the original Daniel while shooting the carriage scene where his old horses run amok. RKO's chief of production turned over during filming. The new chief contemplated pulling the plug on the film before more money was lost. The title hurt exhibition in the south where some theaters did not wish to screen a film with "devil" in the title. It was retitled "All that Money Can Buy" and re-released the same year. It still performed poorly for RKO. Too bad, as it's my favorite piece of cinematic Americana and features a great Bernard Herrmann score and fabulous supporting performance by Simon Simone. That performance prompted Lewton to request "a Simon Simone type" for Irena in "Cat People." He got the real McCoy.