- HD 1080
- Runtime: 96m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: fr
- Country: France, Italy
- Director: René Clair
- Stars: Michel Simon, Gérard Philipe, Nicole Besnard, Simone Valère, Carlo Ninchi
- keywords: eternal youth, lucifer
- Production_studio: Franco London Films, Universalia Film, ENIC
- The The Beauty of the Devil is featured in the top rankings of 1950
- #6 in Top Comedy Movies of 1950
- #10 in Top Drama Movies of 1950
- #3 in Top Fantasy Movies of 1950
Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages of old age ... whereupon Mephistopheles, agent of Lucifer, appears as a virile, handsome young man and exchanges bodies with him to induce Faust to sign a pact to exchange his soul for renewed youth, riches and power. But though the "new" Faust is attracted by the material improvements in his life, he remains wary of signing, while Mephistopheles, now posing as the aged professor whose body he inhabits, must find a way to trick him into signing the pact - and dissuade him from the love of a gypsy girl who prays for his soul - or find himself damned by his own Master...