Devil's Island (1939)
- Directed by
- William Clemens
- Genre
- drama film, prison film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 02m
- Rating
- 5.7 of 10 from 15 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A doctor is wrongfully sent to a brutal prison colony. Boris Karloff plays the innocent man who must survive harsh conditions and fight for his freedom.
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What happens
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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Each Dawn I Die (1939)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.