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The Devil-Doll (1936)
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Release Date:
10 July 1936 (USA)
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Plot:
An escaped Devil's Island convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those that framed him. full summary | add synopsis
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Genuinely Scary, Though It Veers Into Stella Dallas Territory
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Lionel Barrymore | ... | Paul Lavond | |
| Maureen O'Sullivan | ... | Lorraine Lavond | |
| Frank Lawton | ... | Toto | |
| Rafaela Ottiano | ... | Malita | |
| Robert Greig | ... | Emil Coulvet | |
| Lucy Beaumont | ... | Madame Lavond | |
| Henry B. Walthall | ... | Marcel | |
| Grace Ford | ... | Lachna | |
| Pedro de Cordoba | ... | Charles Matin | |
| Arthur Hohl | ... | Victor Radin | |
| Juanita Quigley | ... | Marguerite Coulvet | |
| Claire Du Brey | ... | Madame Coulvet (as Claire du Brey) | |
| Rollo Lloyd | ... | Detective Maurice | |
| E. Alyn Warren | ... | Commissioner of Police |
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Also Known As:
The Witch of Timbuctoo
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Runtime:
78 min (Turner library print)
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Iceland:12 |
Australia:PG |
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) |
USA:TV-PG (TV rating) |
Argentina:16 |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:16 |
USA:Approved (PCA #2328)
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Francis McDonald (Detective) and Inez Palange (Concierge) are in studio records/casting call lists as cast members for their roles, but they did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie.
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Continuity: As one of the men who framed Lavond is reading about his escape from prison, the paper he's holding is shown both folded and unfolded between shots.
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Charles Matin:
There'a a certain amusing irony in offering a man's own money for his capture. Fifty thousand francs? Why not?
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References The Unholy Three (1925)
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This could as easily have been given the name of Browning's previous movie: "Freaks."
Lionel Barrymore demonstrates more range than we're accustomed to, playing an escaped convict and, much of the time, a sweet old lady.
Ottiano is scary as the widow of his jail buddy, who has the patent on making live people into dolls.
The print shown this week on Turner Classics is beautiful but seems to have gaps in its continuity, as if all that survives may be something cut up for commercials in the days when local stations showed old movies.