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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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How good is Devil's Island?

Devil's Island scores 6.02/10 (Fair) on Lunoo, making it rated in the Prison Film category. Boris Karloff brings interest to a Devil's Island melodrama, but consensus places it among routine late-1930s programmers.

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