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The Devil Commands (1941)
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3 February 1941 (USA)
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KARLOFF TURNS KILLER IN A HORROR-CRAMMED THRILLER! (original 11x14 title card) more
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Scientist becomes obsessed with the idea of communicating with his dead wife. full summary | add synopsis
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New England
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Karloff And Revere Make A Wonderful Duo In Fun Chiller
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Boris Karloff | ... | Dr. Julian Blair | |
| Richard Fiske | ... | Dr. Richard Sayles | |
| Amanda Duff | ... | Anne Blair | |
| Anne Revere | ... | Mrs. Walters | |
| Ralph Penney | ... | Karl | |
| Dorothy Adams | ... | Mrs. Marcy | |
| Walter Baldwin | ... | Seth Marcy | |
| Kenneth MacDonald | ... | Sheriff Ed Willis | |
| Shirley Warde | ... | Helen Blair |
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65 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Dr. Julian tells Mrs. Walters she had 10,000 volts pass through her body. Volts do not flow or pass, amps do.
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Dr. Julian Blair:
Anne dear, your mother is not dead, not really. She's come back to me!
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Good Columbia Pictures programmer with Boris Karloff as a scientist obsessed with communicating with his dead wife. It is at times a bit too close to the "Frankenstein" films but it is very entertaining. It begins with Amanda Duff (who plays Karloff's daughter) narrating an obvious attempt to imitate Hitchcock's "Rebecca" the strange tale of his father's growing fixation with his unethical experiments. Karloff uses brainwaves in order to make contact with the world of the dead. Anne Revere is wonderfully bitchy as a phony clairvoyant who wants to profit from Karloff's experiments. It doesn't look too cheap or too low grade. It has some cool effects, including a neat miniature model of a New England house. I liked Edward Dmytryk's atmospheric direction too. It feels like Dmytryk was practicing his craft before he hit it big with the noir classic "Crossfire." The scenes between Karloff and Revere offer the best moments in the film, though. It's a fine 'B' movie that fans of Karloff will enjoy.