该电影由约翰·法罗执导，雷·米兰德、奥黛丽·托特、托马斯·米切尔、乔治·麦克雷迪、弗雷德·克拉克、Geraldine Wall、亨利·奥尼尔、达里尔·希克曼、内斯特帕瓦、金·多诺万、Charles Evans、Ernö Verebes、Arlene Jenkins、Pepito Pérez、Joey Ray等主演，于1949年上映。在89分钟的叙事中，《代号尼克·比尔》（又名：The Contact Man）Righteous district attorney Joseph Foster’s main goal in life is to rid his city of the gangsters infesting it. In order to be even more efficient in his war against crime he plans to run for governor. One day he meets a strange, shadowy man, Nick Beal, who offers to help him to achieve his end. Beal convinces hesitating Foster by dint of easy money, easy sex with an alluring young woman and the promise of easy success. Joseph Foster soon becomes an influential politician but a corrupt one. A minister of God manages to show him that he has been the plaything of the so-called Nick Beal, who might be ”Old Nick” , that is to say Satan himself. Foster then decides to resign and to become an honest man again.