---
title: 'The Devil Commands (1941)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Edward Dmytryk'
released: '1941-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 65
genres:
  - 'Horror'
  - 'Science Fiction'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-devil-commands-1941'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033530/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Devil Commands (1941)

1941 · 65 min · Horror, Science Fiction · United States


## Synopsis

The Devil Commands is a 1941 American horror film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Boris Karloff, Amanda Duff and Richard Fiske. The working title of the film was The Devil Said No. In it, a man obsessed with contacting his dead wife falls in with a sinister phony medium. The Devil Commands is one of the many films from the 1930s and 1940s in which Karloff was cast as a mad scientist with a good heart. It was one of the last in line of the low-budget horror films that were produced before Universal Studios' The Wolf Man. The story was adapted from the novel The Edge of Running Water by William Sloane.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Edward Dmytryk](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-dmytryk)
- **Screenplay:** [Robert Hardy Andrews](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-hardy-andrews)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Morris Stoloff](https://cinepixo.com/people/morris-stoloff)
- **Producer:** [Wallace MacDonald](https://cinepixo.com/people/wallace-macdonald)
- **Editor:** [Al Clark](https://cinepixo.com/people/al-clark)

## Cast

- [Walter Baldwin](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-baldwin)
- [Dorothy Adams](https://cinepixo.com/people/dorothy-adams)
- [Boris Karloff](https://cinepixo.com/people/boris-karloff)
- [Richard Fiske](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-fiske)
- [Anne Revere](https://cinepixo.com/people/anne-revere)

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