THE DEVIL DOLL.
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✎ Suggest a correctionPaul Lavond (Barrymore) was wrongly convicted of robbing his own Paris bank and killing a night watchman more than 17 years ago. He escapes Devil's Island with Marcel, a scientist who is trying to create a formula to reduce people to one-sixth of their original size. The scientist dies after their escape. Lavond decides to use the shrinking technique to obtain revenge on the three former business associates who had framed him. He returns to Paris and disguises himself as an old woman who sells lifelike dolls.
Credits
- Cast
- Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Pedro de Cordoba
Complete catalog record
THE DEVIL DOLL. 1936. 8 reels. Based on the novel "Burn Witch Burn" by Abraham Merritt. Credits: Story, Tod Browning; screenplay, Garrett Fort, Guy Endore, Eric Von Stroheim; musical score, Franz Waxman; film editor, Frederick Y. Smith. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.; 7Jul36; LP6486.
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- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, genre, description, credits, catalog record
- Wikidata · Q1141261 ↗ — color, country
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