A passion for slaughter keeps Box in line at the local abattoir where he can quench his thirst for blood. When Nathan, a young parolee arrives in town, Box is instructed to take him under his wing, and soon the two men bond over a murder. Unable to resist the bloody temptations, the two form a friendship revolving around their sickness for killing. A friendship which is bad news for everyone in town.
After they investigate a supernatural force on Mars, the crew of a spaceship traveling back to Earth exhibits disturbing behavior.
Hollywood’s first all-black film since The Green Pastures tells the vibrant fable of rascally Little Joe, torn between the love of his good wife Petunia and the wiles of good-time bad-girl Georgia Brown…and caught in a tug-of-war between emissaries from the Lord and Satan. How can virtue triumph over evil? Well, as Petunia says, “Sometimes when you fight the devil, you gotta jab him with his own pitchfork.” Debuting movie director Vincente Minnelli (An American in Paris, Gigi) and stars Ethel Waters, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington are more than a match for the devil in this musical treasure.
