The Devil

The Devil

The Devil

6.3/ 10

TMDB Rating

5

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1921

Release Year

58 min

Runtime

Drama

Overview

Dr. Muller, a friend to all, finds pleasure in turning the goodness in people to evil ends. He meets Marie Matin and her fiancée, Georges Roben, while viewing a new painting, "The Martyr--Truth Crucified by Evil." Marie declares that the picture was wrong--evil could never triumph over truth--and though Muller says he agrees with her, he plots to prove otherwise.

Keywords

influence

satire

based on play or musical

devil

evil

Cast

George Arliss

George Arliss

Dr. Müller

Sylvia Breamer

Sylvia Breamer

Mimi

Lucy Cotton

Lucy Cotton

Marie Matin

Florence Arliss

Florence Arliss

Marie's Aunt

Edmund Lowe

Edmund Lowe

Paul de Veaux

Roland Bottomley

Roland Bottomley

Georges Roben

Fredric March

Fredric March

Bal Masque Participant (uncredited)

Images

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Reviews(2)

6.5avg rating

C

CyrusPK

September 12, 2018

6

6/10

It may be difficult to countenance now but there was a time when George Arliss was close to being the biggest film star in the world. This slightly stooped, perhaps not conventionally handsome, mature gentleman had spent years on the stage to tremendous acclaim and achieved the same in the early so…

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

June 6, 2022

7

7/10

George Arliss is superb in this short feature as the marvellously manipulative, rapscallion "Dr. Müller" who relishes in the misery he causes. He overhears a conversation at an art gallery were a two people are discussing a painting illustrating that truth will always overcome evil. Our devious "Mül…

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