Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
Acting
Peter Lorre's sweaty, desperate Pig steals every scene he's in.
Direction
Borzage turns a prison break into religious hallucination.
Production
Devil's Island sets that somehow look expensive and cheap simultaneously.
Director
Frank Borzage
Joan Crawford
Julie
Clark Gable
André Verne
Ian Hunter
Cambreau
Peter Lorre
M'sieu Pig
Paul Lukas
Hessler
Albert Dekker
Moll
J. Edward Bromberg
Flaubert
Eduardo Ciannelli
Telez
John Arledge
Dufond
Frederick Worlock
Grideau, the Prison Head
Bernard Nedell
Marfeu
Victor Varconi
Fisherman
Richard Alexander
Guard (uncredited)
Stanley Andrews
Constable (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Gable and Crawford's eighth and final film together; their affair was reportedly so intense that studio security once found Gable's shoes under Crawford's couch.
The film's spiritual symbolism was controversial enough that several Southern theaters refused to screen it, calling it 'Communist propaganda disguised as religion.'
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