Devils Island (1939 film)
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Duration Country United States | 6.4/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Thriller Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast (Dr. Charles Gaudet), Nedda Harrigan (Madame Lucien), (Col. Armand Lucien), Adia Kuznetzoff (Pierre), Rolla Gourvitch (Collette), (Bobo)Release date January 7, 1939 (1939-01-07) Genres Drama, Thriller, Black-and-white Similar movies Self/less , Hipnos , The Expendables 3 , Johanna , Stonehearst Asylum , Mission: Impossible III Tagline A Drama of Inhuman Cruelty! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Devil's Island is a 1939 American prison film directed by William Clemens and starring Boris Karloff. This film is notable for Karloff as the protagonist, opposed to the villain-like characters in his various horror roles.
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Plot
For treating a wounded revolutionary, respected surgeon, Dr. Charles Gaudet (Boris Karloff) is sentenced to life imprisonment to the infamous French penal colony on Devil's Island. It isn't long before he speaks out against the inhuman conditions and incurs the anger of the brutal prison commander, Colonel Armand Lucien (James Stephenson). But when Lucien's daughter Collette receives life-threatening wounds in an accident, the only person on Devils Island who can save her, is Gaudet.
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Reception
The depiction of Devil's Island upset the French government. Fear of something similar happening resulted in a proposed 1947 film from Columbia, The End of Devil's Island, being cancelled.
References
Devil's Island (1939 film) WikipediaDevils Island (1939 film) IMDb Devils Island (1939 film) themoviedb.org