The Devil Doll

Sir Lionel Barrymore stars in a twisted tale of terror and murder! In this horror classic from master of the macabre Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks), banker Paul Lavond (Barrymore) escapes from Devil's Island seventeen years after being framed by his three business partners. A fellow escapee, Marcel (Henry B. Walthall), shows Lavond how he can shrink animals--and people--to the size of dolls and control them via telepathy. But when Marcel suddenly dies, his widow, Malita (Rafaela Ottiano), persuades Lavond to continue her husband's work. Now, Lavond disguises himself as an old woman, Madame Mandelip, and opens a doll shop with Malita ... from which he dispatches shrunken people to kill his enemies. Based on the novel Burn, Witch, Burn! by Abraham Merritt.