| The Devil Commands | |
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| Directed by | Edward Dmytryk |
| Screenplay by | Robert Hardy Andrews Milton Gunzburg |
| Based on | The Edge of Running Water by William Sloane |
| Produced by | Wallace MacDonald |
| Starring | Boris Karloff Amanda Duff Richard Fiske |
| Cinematography | Allen G. Siegler |
| Edited by | Al Clark |
| Music by | Morris Stoloff |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 65 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Devil Commands is a 1941 American horror film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Boris Karloff, Amanda Duff and Richard Fiske.[1] The working title of the film was The Devil Said No.[2] In it, a man obsessed with contacting his dead wife falls in with a sinister phony medium. The Devil Commands is one of the many films from the 1930s and 1940s in which Karloff was cast as a mad scientist with a good heart. It was one of the last in line of the low-budget horror films that were produced before Universal Studios' The Wolf Man. The story was adapted from the novel The Edge of Running Water by William Sloane.[3]
- ^ Hal Erickson (2012). "The Devil Commands". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved May 1, 2011.
- ^ Young 2000, p. 154.
- ^ Stephen Jacobs, Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster, Tomahawk Press 2011 p 265