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Devil's Island

Name: Devil's Island
Description: Devil's Island is a 1939 Warner Bros. drama film starring Boris Karloff. The story concerns a French surgeon who is unjustly sent to the Devil's Island penal colony, a group of former French penal settlements off the coast of French Guiana, where imprisonment and escape shape the drama.

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Devil's Island is a 1939 Warner Bros. drama film starring Boris Karloff. The story concerns a French surgeon who is unjustly sent to the Devil's Island penal colony, a group of former French penal settlements off the coast of French Guiana, where imprisonment and escape shape the drama.

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What is Devil's Island about?

The 1939 Warner Bros. drama follows a French surgeon who is unjustly sent to the Devil's Island penal colony. Imprisonment and escape shape the story.

Who stars in Devil's Island?

Boris Karloff is the named star of the 1939 film. Warner Bros. released it as a drama set around the French penal-colony system.

Where was Devil's Island?

Devil's Island was part of a group of former French penal settlements off the coast of French Guiana. The film uses that penal colony as its central setting.

Is Devil's Island a prison escape movie?

Yes, escape is one of the plot's central pressures because a French surgeon is sent there unjustly. The 1939 Warner Bros. story combines imprisonment with the danger of getting out.

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