Queen Anne

>> It’s the Grand Old Movies Photo Caption Contest! Suggest one for the image below!: The above pic comes from the 1941 film The Devil Commands, a Columbia Pictures cheapie starring Boris Karloff (one of six he made at the studio over a seven-year period) as Dr. Blair, a Mad, if Mild-Mannered Scientist experimenting with electrified brain-wave transmissions in an attempt to contact the dead. That brief plot summary—of which the above image (in which Karloff, having shoved several dead bodies into electrode-hyped diving suits, ramps up the electricity to make like The Séance From Hell) indicates how far our Insane Inventor is willing to go—will, no doubt,…pique your interest. With a short running time, a small budget, a few sets, and a lot of faith in audiences swallowing its premise without too many questions, The Devil Commands is, like Karloff’s crazed doctor, an entertaining, if mild-toned mad-sci/horror B-flick. Its story, however, is not really about Science, mad or not. Its true…