The Devil-Doll

As one of the men who framed Lavond is reading about his escape from prison, the paper he's holding is shown both folded and unfolded between shots.

The shrunken animals do not cast shadows when they move.

This is obvious with the dogs on the lab table and the horse galloping on Radin's desk.

When Lachna is on Coulvet's bed to stab him, she does not cast a shadow on the bed's blanket, nor does she put any indentions in the blanket when walking on it.

Radin at times does not cast a shadow when he's about to stab Matin in his house.

As soon as movie starts it gets interesting and doesn't let go from then on. Acting is pretty good.

Tod Browning directed this Science Fiction/Revenge film that stars Lionel Barrymore as Paris banker Paul Lavond, who was wrongfully convicted of robbery and murder(framed by two crooked associates) and sent to Devil's Island, where years later he escapes with a fellow prisoner who also happens to be a brilliant scientist who invented a technique to shrink people and animals! The inventor dies in flight, but Lavond survives and makes his way home, where he begins a campaign of revenge against his enemies, though does take time to reunite with his daughter(played by Maureen O' Sullivan)in disguise as a woman, which is part of the overall plot.

So stop me if you heard this one before. Someone is wronged and uses Mad Science to exact his revenge.

At first, you may think it's a cheesy horror movie from the 30s era. In a certain way it is.

Common knowledge would have it that, after "Freaks" proved too spicy a meatball for '30s audiences, Todd Browning's career was over. While I can't comment on the films' performances, Browning did go on to make two minor classics: "Mark of the Vampire" and "The Devil-Doll.

It's an adaptation of a book by way of three screenwriters, including Erich von Stroheim, of all people, yet "The Devil-Doll" is still largely a recycling of director Tod Browning's "The Unholy Three" (1925)--albeit plus a revenge plot involving mad doctors shrinking people into mind-controlled dolls. It's wacky enough, and "The Unholy Three" movies (1925 and 1930) were good to begin with, that it's an entertaining cult film nonetheless.

Short and sweet: This movie was a total surprise! Lionel Barrymore who can be compromised by his distinctive voice hides it in this movie, he carries the entire movie he makes this worth watching as absurd the plot is Lionel Barrymore keeps this movie watchable!

An intriguing and often over-looked slice of melodrama from the 1930s, this film remains neglected alongside its bigger 'brothers' - namely Dracula, FRANKENSTEIN, and THE INVISIBLE MAN. However that doesn't mean that it should be forgotten - it's actually a very good little film that plays more like a standard romance tale than your usual horror flick.

Lionel Barrymore escapes from Devil's Island along with an old scientist. The scientist has created a means of reducing humans to the size of dolls.