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