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Devil's Island (1940)

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Veteran movie heavy Boris Karloff plays a sympathetic role in Devil's Island. Karloff portrays a humanitarian physician, arrested for treating the wounds of a treasonous fugitive. Sent to the Devil's Island penal colony, Dr. Karloff runs afoul of sadistic commandant James Stephenson, who seems obsessed by the guillotine (an execution sequence is one of the film's longest scenes). Stephenson's wife Nedda Harrigan, fed up with her husband's cruelties, aids Karloff in turning the tables on the

Unrated, 1 hr. 2 min.

Drama

Directed By: William Clemens

Cast

Boris Karloff
Dr. Charles Gaudet
Nedda Harrigan
Mme. Lucien
James Stephenson
Col. Armand
Adia Kuznetzoff
Pierre
Rolla Gourvitch
Colette
Robert Warwick
Demontre
Will Stanton
Bobo
Edward Keane
Dr. Duval
Pedro de Cordoba
Marcel
Tom Wilson
Emil
John Harmon
Andre
Egon Brecher
Debriac
Richard Bond
Georges
Sidney Bracey
Soupy
Al Bridge
Harry Cording
Earl Dwire
Earl Gunn
Leon
John Hamilton
Ship's Captain
Stuart Holmes
Gustav Le Brun
George Lloyd
Dogface
Leonard Mudie
Advocate General
Frank Reicher
President of Assize Cou...
Dick Rich
Guard
Charles Richman
Gov. Beaufort

Critic Reviews for Devil's Island

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While the camera probes the brutalities inflicted on the prisoners, the drama is savagely realistic.

October 6, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Bosley Crowther

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Socially relevant drama about abusive conditions in France's Devil's Island penal colony.

October 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

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The Story is a Remake from The Prisoner of Shark Island and just transplatented to Devil's Island which is under French Occupation but is well made a great Drama about a Medicus who aid a Revolutionary and get judged to a Life Long Setence on a Prisoner's Island and get the Local Medicus to help the sick Gouvenour

July 11, 2010

David Hofmann

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