For Walpurgis Night, here’s “The Devil’s Cabaret” (1930). The pre-Code short climaxes with “The Hades Ballet,” reminding us that Dimitri Tiomkin once studied with Alexander Glazunov.
Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij2AsmQ_6ZE
Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOgHueVqyyU
BTW – Satan is played by Charles Middleton, perhaps better known as Ming the Merciless in the Flash Gordon serials.
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