The Mephisto Waltz – 1971
Director
Paul Wendkos

Writers
Ben Maddow
Fred Mustard Stewart – novel

Cast
Alan Alda
Jacqueline Bisset
Barbara Parkins

Review by Wayne Malin

Spooky supernatural thriller,

A dying pianist (Curt Jurgins) makes a bargain with Satan to have his soul put into a younger man’s body (Alan Alda). The younger man’s wife (Jacqueline Bissett) realizes slowly something is different about her husband… This is a scary, unsettling little horror film from the ’70s that is virtually unknown today (why?). It has one serious thing wrong with it–Alan Alda. He’s totally miscast and gives a lousy performance. Everybody else is good (especially an incredibly beautiful Bissett).

The movie moves fairly quick, it has some really eerie dream sequences, quite a few frightening moments and a VERY scary call to Satan at the end. Heck, even the music is scary! Worth seeing…and should be better known