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Devil's Island(Movie, 1939)

1h 2min | Genres: Drama, Thriller
Devil's IslandRating: 2.7/5 (with 55 votes)
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. ()
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About Devil's Island

A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 3 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), English (EN)
Status: Released
Release date US: 01/07/1939
Director: William Clemens
Producer: Bryan Foy
Screenwriter: Anthony Coldeway
Director of Photography: George Barnes
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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Other movies with this title: Devil's Island (US, 1926), Devil's Island (YU, 1979), Devil's Island (DK/DE/IS/NO, 1996), Devil's Island (2021)

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