The Devil Commands (1941)
When the Devil commands Karloff obeys...!
A story about a scientist who is obsessed with communicating with the dead.
- Date of release
- 1941-08-15
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (34)
- Runtime
- 1h 5m
- Genres
- Horror, Science Fiction
- Director
- Edward Dmytryk
Casting
- Boris Karloff — Dr. Julian Blair
- Richard Fiske — Dr. Richard Sayles
- Amanda Duff — Anne Blair
- Anne Revere — Mrs. Walters
- Dorothy Adams — Mrs. Marcy
- Walter Baldwin — Seth Marcy
- Kenneth MacDonald — Sheriff Ed Willis
- Shirley Warde — Helen Blair
- Cy Schindell — Karl
- Ernie Adams — Elam
- Lester Allen — Dr. Van Den
- Wheaton Chambers — Dr. Sanders
Interesting facts
The Devil Commands is a 1941 American horror film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Boris Karloff, Amanda Duff and Richard Fiske. The working title of the film was The Devil Said No. In it, a man obsessed with contacting his dead wife falls in with a sinister phony medium. The Devil Commands is one of the many films from the 1930s and 1940s in which Karloff was cast as a mad scientist with a good heart. It was one of the last in line of the low-budget horror films that were produced before Universal Studios' The Wolf Man. The story was adapted from the novel The Edge of Running Water by William Sloane.
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