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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
A delirious pre-Code nightmare of obsession, bodily violation, and theatrical grotesquerie, with the same compact, macabre intensity and heightened studio expressionism as Browning’s revenge fantasy.
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Why this pick
Its mad-science premise becomes a darkly playful tale of power and vengeance, balancing ingenious effects, gallows humor, and a protagonist whose escape from society turns increasingly monstrous.
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Why this pick
Another early miniature-people shocker, built around elaborate scale effects and a sinister scientist. It trades Browning’s Parisian melodrama for colorful, claustrophobic pulp menace.
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Why this pick
Its lurid early-color imagery, grotesque villainy, and revenge-minded plot share The Devil-Doll’s pleasure in elaborate disguises, Gothic spectacle, and feverish pre-Code melodrama.
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Why this pick
A wrongly imperiled man confronts an unnerving bodily transformation in this expressionist ancestor to Hollywood mad-science horror, rich in fatalism, identity anxiety, and stylized shadows.
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01 / THE STORY
Paul Lavond (Barrymore), who was wrongly convicted of robbing his own Paris bank and killing a night Security guard more than seventeen years ago, escapes Devil's Island with Marcel (Henry B. Walthall), a scientist who is trying to create a formula to reduce people to one-sixth of their original size. The intended purpose of the formula is to make the Earth's limited resources last longer for an ever-growing population. The scientist dies after their escape.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Paul Lavond
Madame Lavond
Mme. Coulvet
Lorraine Lavond
