Erskine Sanford

Seduced by a femme fatal, a wandering Irishman joins a yachting cruise from New York to San Francisco and gets trapped in its passengers’ murder plot.

Sent to hell after he’s gunned down by his double-crossing partner, a mobster makes a deal with the devil he struggles to keep after falling in love.

The magnificent Orson Welles directed this brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane.