The Devil Doll

The DevilDoll 1936 is a horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring a crossdressing Lionel Barrymore and Maureen OSullivan as his daughter, Lorraine Lavond. The movie was adapted from the novel Burn Witch Burn 1932 by Abraham Merritt.

Lavond joins the scientists widow, Malita Rafaela Ottiano, and decides to use the shrinking technique to obtain revenge on the three former business associates who had framed him and to vindicate himself. He returns to Paris and disguises himself as an old woman that sells lifelike dolls. He shrinks a young girl and one of his former associates to infiltrate the homes of the other two former associates, paralyzing one.When the final associate confesses before he is attacked, Lavond clears his name and secures the future happiness of his estranged daughter, Lorraine OSullivan, in the process. Malita isnt satisfied, and wants to continue to use the formula to carry on her husbands work. She tries to kill Paul when he announces that he is finished with their partnership, having accomplished all he intended, but she blows up their lab, killing herself. ........

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