Alexandria Oddball Cinema

Madam Satan

Oddball Cinema brings you all of the weird, eclectic, and lesser-known films you probably never saw in theaters. Click on the event title for more info!

Cecil B. DeMille is renowned for epic productions such as Cleopatra and The Ten Commandments, but did you know that he also directed a screwball comedy?  This feature is a silly who’s-hiding-under-whose-bed caper in which a woman suspects that her husband is having an affair.  In the 1930s the conventional wisdom was that a man strays because his wife isn’t making a sufficient effort to hold onto him, so this wife decides to lure hers back by tempting him at a masked ball disguised as a devil.  The third act, however, turns the film into the action-packed feature with massive sets for which DeMille would become famous:  the ball is held aboard a zeppelin, and everything that can go wrong goes disastrously wrong.

■ Title — Madam Satan
■ Director — Cecil B. DeMille
■ Cast — Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth
■ Rating — Passed, suitable for general audiences
■ Distributor — Warner Home Video
■ ©1930 | 1h 56m | Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical

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