The Devil Commands (1941)

Directed by

Edward Dmytryk

Genre

horror film, science fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 05m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 34 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widowed scientist uses a machine to try to communicate with his dead wife. He gets involved with a fraudulent medium who has her own sinister plans.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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