Zum Teufel mit Max (1981)
36KZum Teufel mit Max: Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern. With Elliott Gould, Bill Cosby, Susan Anspach, Adam Rich. Max, a dead corrupt businessman, makes a Faustian pact with Satan’s henchman to drive three people to Hell in exchange for longer life. Soon Max realizes that there still may be good in him.
“With the past several years and all the bad publicity that has come out about Bill Cosby the fact that he could be cast as an emissary of Satan himself seems less ironic these days. The other half of the title of The Devil And Max Devlin is played by Elliott Gould who is destined for the lower depths after falling into a manhole unless he agrees to get three innocents to pledge their souls.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhere to find innocent souls in 1981 is the question, but in his new guise as a manager/promoter he finds promising singer Julie Budd, a BMX racer David Knell and a little kid Adam Rich with a real pretty mom in Susan Anspach.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI have to tell you that I was a bit uneasy in the scenes involving Gould and Rich. It was like he was stalking as a pedophile would. How Disney Studios were comfortable with that God only knows.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe Devil And Max Devlin has some interesting moments, a few laughs but not quite the hit it could have been. I would have not used the whole business with Adam Rich if I were producing the film”
