BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Audio commentary by film historian Bruce Eder and Steven C. Smith, biographer of composer Bernard Herrmann
• New restoration demonstration
• Reading by actor Alec Baldwin of the short story by Stephen Vincent Benét on which the film is based
• Episode of the Criterion Channel series Observations on Film Art about the film’s editing
• Comparison of the differences between the July 1941 preview version of the film, Here Is a Man, and the film’s 1943 rerelease as The Devil and Daniel Webster
• The Columbia Workshop’s radio adaptations of Benét’s short stories “The Devil and Daniel Webster” and “Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent,” both featuring music by Herrmann
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by author Tom Piazza and a 1941 article by Benét
• Illustration by Thomas Ott