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    Devil Doll (1964)

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    The great Vorelli (Bryant Haliday) is a master hypnotist and gifted ventriloquist with an amazing act where his dummy appears to be able to walk and talk on its own.

    Vorelli has also dabbled in the black arts and learned how to transfer souls from a human body to an inanimate object – which he did with his old assistant Hugo (David Charlesworth), who is now his ventriloquist dummy (Sadie Corre).

    American journalist Mark English (William Sylvester) arrives in London to investigate a series of murders and soon suspects Vorelli – but he always has an alibi.

    Meanwhile, Vorelli becomes infatuated with the journalist’s rich and beautiful heiress girlfriend, Marianne Horn (Yvonne Romaine,) and sets out to do some soul transferring with her – mesmerizing her and inducing a baffling coma.

    Vorelli’s clingy and buxom assistant Magda (Sandra Dorne) fears he will dump her for the younger woman, and threatens to expose him so Vorelli tricks his dummy, Hugo, into killing her while he’s safely elsewhere.

    Marianne wakes from her coma and announces she will marry the hypnotist, but when the triumphant Vorelli tells Hugo his plans for Marianne and a new, female dummy, a final confrontation yields surprising results.

    The Great Vorelli
    Bryant Haliday
    Mark English
    William Sylvester
    Marianne Horn
    Yvonne Romain
    Magda
    Sandra Dorne
    Aunt Eva
    Nora Nicholson
    Bob Garrett
    Alan Gifford
    Dr Heller
    Karel Stepanek
    Dr Keisling
    Francis De Wolff
    Hugo Novik
    David Charlesworth
    Mercedes
    Lorenza Colville
    Hugo the Dummy
    Sadie Corre
    Miss Penton
    Trixie Dallas
    Hans
    Guy Deghy
    Countess
    Margaret Durnell
    Grace
    Heidi Erich
    Uncle Walter
    Philip Ray
    Louisa
    Ella Tracey

    Director
    Lindsay Shonteff

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