The Devil Commands
by Edward Dmytryk
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Actor: Amanda Duff, Anne Revere, Boris Karloff, Cy Schindell, Richard FiskeDirector: Edward Dmytryk
Cinematographer: Allen G. Siegler
Editor: Al Clark
Producer: Wallace MacDonald
Writer: Milton Gunzburg
Writer: Robert Hardy Andrews
Writer: William Sloane
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 65 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of The Devil Commands
Movie Review: Re-Discovering The "Lost" Boris Karloff Masterpiece: THE DEVIL COMMANDS
Summary: 5 Stars
So it was about 1960,and I was just a 10-year-old boy growing up in Houston,Texas...
and watching a local weekend TV show called "The MidNite Zone" [sic] which featured various sci-fi and horror movies.
One of those movies REALLY made an impression on me. The legendary BORIS KARLOFF with a character involved in a mysterious experiment...a chart of brainwaves,and
a whirlpool...I was only able to watch it halfway through,being it was so late at
night...I wouldn't hear about this movie again until a few years later,when narrator
Joseph Cotten mentioned it in the documentary "Hollywood And The Stars": "Boris Karloff is most at home when he's involved in a diabolic experiment!" And they showed a clip from this movie....but WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE MOVIE??
So I emailed Sara Karloff (the actor's surviving daughter,Sara Karloff Enterprises). Her people told me about "THE DEVIL COMMANDS"...and I bought the DVD...I just saw the movie in its entirety!! 50 years late but better
late then never.
This is an INCREDIBLE masterpeice with astounding sophistication for such an old (1941) movie. The acting is great,the effects are fine,and the story (adapted from a book) is really disturbing. (What if a scientist could open the door to Eternity in the attempt to communicate with the dead? That could destroy the world!!) Simple story,but VERY effective,dealing with such complex issues. Black-and-white "noir",yes,but it drives the point home. I was surprised to find out that the music was handled by Morris Stoloff (credited as "M. Stoloff") later responsible for music from the 1956 movie "Picnic" (and notable others).
Should be required viewing for all KARLOFF fans and anybody who appreciates horror/
science fiction. (BTW,if you could only have 3 KARLOFF movies,they should be: FRANKENSTEIN,THE DEVIL COMMANDS,and YOU'LL FIND OUT (a real oddity,a horror-comedy-
musical!)
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