Roland Hewgill's Salvator Waltz is a shade too much the plausible confidence man to appear demoniacally unhinged, and Henry Thomas' Minister of War is a doddering Polonius with .
No kin to his sister Swede, 41-year-old Ingmar Bergman is one of the most peculiarly gifted and demoniacally creative moviemakers of modern times"a gothic Dante," one European .
He plays the succulent part of Scrooge with delightful gusto, whether barking at charity solicitors, cringing before ghosts, demoniacally fleecing a business associate or lavishing .