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. Good(if contrived) premise has some reasonable F/X but ruined by an astonishingly anti-climatic ending. Oh well!
Review of The Devil-Doll
