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The Devil-Doll is a 1936 American horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O'Sullivan. The film was adapted from the novel Burn Witch Burn! (1932) by Abraham Merritt. It has become a cult film. A French scientist is worried about human overpopulation.
The Devil-Doll: Directed by Tod Browning. With Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Rafaela Ottiano. An escaped convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those who framed him.
Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond (Lionel Barrymore) breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans.
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Overview. Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans.
A Devil's Island escapee shrinks murderous slaves and sells them to his victims as dolls.
An escaped convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those who framed him. Paul Lavond was a respected banker in Paris when he was framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison.
This imaginative, Dumasian revenge tale finds Browning returning to pet themes of mesmeric influence and parental estrangement, but the film’s carnivalesque spectacle of double-exposure techniques and gigantically oversized sets—plus Lionel Barrymore’s totally committed drag performance—nearly turn The Devil-Doll into all-out farce.
