THE DEVIL PLAYS is one of those very low budget murder mysteries set in just a couple of indoor locations. It's one of those supposedly lost films which perhaps should have remained lost given the poor quality of the thing. This is one of those 1930s films which feels like it comes from another era, with trite dialogue and overly theatrical acting which spoils the realism of the piece. A person is murdered and various assembled folk try to figure out the identity of the murderer from a number of suspects. Despite running at just an hour in length, this is slow indeed, and almost completely without merit.
Review of The Devil Plays
