The Power Of Evil

Sporadically interesting drama with Voelz as a young theology student who has an affair with Barrault, the wife of his benefactor, Gassman. He becomes entrapped in her scheme to kill her husband; she plans to provoke Gassman into a heart attack by telling him the truth about the relationship. It works, but Barrault is greatly dismayed to find that her husband's will leaves his armaments factory to Voelz. Barrault, a leftist, wants the factory to arm her comrades, so she offers to give Voelz his daughter by her in return for the factory. Voelz accepts and is last seen wandering the countryside with his little girl, impoverished and endlessly quoting the Bible. There...