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"[to Gaudet] Perhaps youll lose some of that mutinous spirit when you get an axe and a saw in those soft hands."
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Devil's Island (1939 film)
Devil's Island is a 1939 American prison film directed by William Clemens and starring Boris Karloff. This film is notable for Karloff in a then-rare sympathetic role, as opposed to his usual antagonistic characters in horror films. The plot appears to have been recycled from John Ford's The Prisoner of Shark Island, which depicted the true story of doctor Samuel Mudd, who treated the injury of Jo
"[to Gaudet] Perhaps youll lose some of that mutinous spirit when you get an axe and a saw in those soft hands."
"Rolla Gourvitch — Collette Lucien"
"Boris Karloff — Dr. Charles Gaudet"
"Nedda Harrigan — Madame Helene Lucien"
"James Stephenson — Colonel Armand Lucien"
"Adia Kuznetzoff — Pierre Leroux"
"My only crime was saving a life. You call that treason?"
"He escaped from a life worse than death . . . Devils Island . . . the last haven of horror for the fiercest criminals on earth!"