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The Devil’s Assistant (1917) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1917 · 23 mins · English
- Directed by
- Harry A. Pollard
- Starring
- Joe Harris, Monroe Salisbury, Margarita Fischer, Kathleen Kirkham, Jack Mower
A physician, spurned when the woman he loves marries another, exacts a cruel revenge by prescribing a regimen of hallucinogenic drugs to treat her chronic exhaustion. As the medication takes hold, the film follows her spiraling into paranoia and madness, rendered in stark red‑tinted cinematography that evokes a nightmarish descent into a personal hell.
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