The Devil Commands

The Devil Commands is a 1941 film about a scientist who becomes obsessed with the idea of communicating with his dead wife.

Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Written by Robert Hardy Andrews, Milton Gunzburg, and William Sloane.

This mad wizard kills at will in Satan's service! Taglines

Dr. Julian Blair

• Anne dear, your mother is not dead, not really. She's come back to me!

• I've got to use more amplification than I've ever used before. But I'm not going to hurt you!

Anne Blair

• My father had become a very strange man!
• They say my father's spirit must still lives in that house. I don't know. When he seemed to be so close to what he sought, something reached for him - a warning that human beings must not try to reach beyond death! I don't know. No one will ever know, and yet perhaps the time will come when the door to infinity will open... perhaps... perhaps...

Other

• Dr. Van Den: I know one thing, Julian - there are things human beings have no right to know!

• Mrs. Walters: If you can do what you’re trying to do, you’ll own the world. You know that, don’t you?

Taglines

• KARLOFF TURNS KILLER IN A HORROR-CRAMMED THRILLER!
• When the Devil commands Karloff obeys...!
• This mad wizard kills at will in Satan's service!

Cast

• Boris Karloff — Dr. Julian Blair
• Richard Fiske — Dr. Richard Sayles
• Amanda Duff — Anne Blair
• Anne Revere — Mrs. Walters
• Ralph Penney — Karl
• Dorothy Adams — Mrs. Marcy
• Walter Baldwin — Seth Marcy
• Kenneth MacDonald — Sheriff Ed Willis
• Shirley Warde — Helen Blair

External links

• The Devil Commands quotes at the Internet Movie Database