The Devil-Doll (1936) ( The Witch of Timbuctoo ) ( The Devil Doll )

The Devil-Doll (1936) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Witch of Timbuctoo
Alternate Title: The Devil Doll
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )
Farsi ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
77 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Alternative Footage
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1936 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Tod Browning

Written By:
Garrett Fort
Guy Endore

Actors:
Lionel Barrymore ..... Paul Lavond / Madame Mandilip
Maureen O'Sullivan ..... Lorraine Lavond
Frank Lawton ..... Toto
Rafaela Ottiano ..... Malita
Robert Greig ..... Emil Coulvet
Lucy Beaumont ..... Madame Lavond
Henry B. Walthall ..... Marcel
Grace Ford ..... Lachna
Pedro de Cordoba ..... Charles Matin
Arthur Hohl ..... Victor Radin
Juanita Quigley ..... Marguerite Coulvet
Claire Du Brey ..... Madame Coulvet
Rollo Lloyd ..... Detective Maurice
E. Alyn Warren ..... Commissioner of Police

Synopsis:

After seventeen years in prison, the former respected Parisian banker Paul Lavond flees with his friend, the lunatic scientist Marcel that is researching with his wife Malita the miniaturization of animals and human beings to improve the resources of mankind. Paul Lavond was framed for robbery by his scoundrel associates Emil Coulvet, Charles Matin and Victor Radin that had stolen his business while his family was doomed to shame, poverty and tragedy. When Marcel reduces the retarded servant Lachna, he learns that the woman is motionless and only responds to the control of his brain and has a heart attack. After the death of Marcel, Paul Lavond sees the chance to use the miniaturization process as instrument of vengeance and he travels to Paris with the insane Malita disguised of Madame Mandilip, a nice old lady and owner of a dolls store. Paul Lavond, using the identity of Madame Mandilip, befriends his resented and estranged daughter Lorraine Lavond and plots a scheme to revenge and vindicate his family name.

Paul Lavond was a respected banker in Paris when he was framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to Devil's Island. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond however is consumed with hatred for the men who betrayed him, and takes the scientist's methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.

Scientist discover method of reducing living creatures to a sixth of their size.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 02 July, 2019.