Devil's Island (1939)
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
- Data di uscita
- 1939-01-07
- TMDB
- 5.7 / 10 (15)
- Durata
- 1 h 2 min
- Generi
- Dramma
- Regista
- William Clemens
Cast
- Boris Karloff — Dr. Charles Gaudet
- Nedda Harrigan — Madame Lucien
- James Stephenson — Col. Armand Lucien
- Adia Kuznetzoff — Pierre
- Rolla Gourvitch — Collette
- Will Stanton — Bobo
- Edward Keane — Dr. Duval
- Robert Warwick — Demonpre
- Pedro de Cordoba — Marcal
- Tom Wilson — Emil
- John Harmon — Andre
- Richard Bond — Georges
Curiosità
Devil's Island is a 1939 American prison film directed by William Clemens and starring Boris Karloff. This film is notable for Karloff in a then-rare sympathetic role, as opposed to his usual antagonistic characters in horror films. The plot appears to have been recycled from John Ford's The Prisoner of Shark Island, which depicted the true story of doctor Samuel Mudd, who treated the injury of John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated Lincoln.
Production
The film was originally made when France announced it was giving up Devil's Island as a penal colony. The French government then changed its mind. Warners temporarily shelved the film then released it.
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