Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

SoftInloveRox Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

mark.waltz Newcomer Ed Nelson has a unique way of making friends... and losing them. He introduces himself to town-folk as the nephew of a recently deceased resident whom nobody liked, a hermit who was found dead covered in blood along side a goat which obviously had its throat slit. Bizarre goings on reveal that Nelson isn't the nice man he appears to be, and the town doctor and sheriff try to discover what is really behind all of the recent tragic events. The sudden attack of the rival to Nelson's attempt to win the doctor's daughter by his devoted dog, the discovery of a trampled body of the town drunk, and other bizarre happenings prove that something spiritually evil is taking place.Nelson, a cult actor who found romantic leads on the soap operas "Peyton Place" and "Capital", is a bizarre presence, his easy going demeanor hiding something truly foul. The poor drunk gets a first hand view, and his terror in realizing what he's witnessed isn't a hallucination is truly frightening. This is the type of horror movie that probably sent viewers immediately to church to pray or home to shower. It's cheaply made, adequately acted, and truly disturbingI can't watch films like this and praise them simply for that reason, even though I think that later horror films like " Rosemary's Baby" and "The Omen" are classics among the genre. This has an element of trashiness to it that puts it in the classification of exploitation rather than a piece of art.

bkoganbing A few years after Ed Nelson was 'introduced' in this film he got a great career break playing in the television version of Peyton Place for several years. But I'll bet the folks who produced Peyton Place never saw Nelson playing in a monstrosity.Devil's Partner finds Ed Nelson as an old man who's apparently got the hots for this young woman. But naturally she won't give him the time of day. So he makes a deal with the devil who grants him all kinds of powers and he starts making his moves on Jean Allison daughter of the town physician Edgar Buchanan.Part of his deal with the devil has him becoming young and he becomes the Ed Nelson familiar to us from the Sixties as Dr. Michael Rossi on Peyton Place. He can also shapeshift like Odo and command the animals to do his bidding. I'll let you see the film to see what he has them do.Where was Edgar Buchanan's agent to allow him to do such a monstrosity of a film? For that matter Richard Crane who was television's Rocky Jones in the Fifties was similarly dumped on by his agent. Crane plays the filling station owner that Allison has her heart set on. Crane was on the downside of his career, but Buchanan was a respected character actor and Nelson had a future despite this film.The ending, ripped off from The Invisible Man. I'll bet the cast members wished they were invisible after being in this.

jrodizzee by the comments on this page, i feel the need to clarify a misconception. The old man never actually died, on his pact with the devil, he was given a new restored life and youth. This being the reason for why he digresses to his elder state, sometimes when at his shack. Keep in mind the whole thing was simply to get revenge on the town people, which he would not be able to do as a crippled old man. He faked his own death, and simply invented being the nephew of the old man in order to avoid suspicion and explain why a young man now lives and owns the land. On the final scene, where he dies, his body returns to the old man appearance and then dies.

Chuck Straub The phrase Don't judge a book by its cover certainly applies to this movie. The cover of the DVD shows a naked woman riding a centaur, in a storm, through a cemetery. Forget all of that. You won't see it. It doesn't exist in this movie. It has nothing to do with the movie. The movie is actually very tame. My copy of 'The Devil's Partner' is by Alpha Video. There are some problems with the actual quality of the film. This is primarily in the beginning of the movie. For me, it wasn't bad enough to be a major problem and I quickly forgot about it. With that being said, I really liked the movie and enjoyed it more than I expected. It's an old B movie, and it does have some problems with the plot, but the acting is pretty good and it is an enjoyable, entertaining film. In my opinion 'The Devil's Partner' is an average 1950s B horror movie, is under rated, and is worth viewing.