Respected Parisian banker Paul Lavond is framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond, however, is consumed with hatred for those who betrayed him, and takes the scientist's methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.

Lionel Barrymore
as Paul Lavond

Maureen O'Sullivan
as Lorraine Lavond

Frank Lawton
as Toto

Rafaela Ottiano
as Malita

Robert Greig
as Émile Coulvet

Lucy Beaumont
as Madame Lavond

Henry B. Walthall
as Marcel

Grace Ford
as Lachna

Pedro de Cordoba
as Charles Martin

Arthur Hohl
as Victor Radin
John Chard
Browning's creepy miniatures. Paul Lavond is a wrongly convicted prisoner serving his time on the hellish Devil's Island. Engineering an escape with loopy scientist, Marcel, they take refuge at Marcel's old laboratory. Here Lavond finds to his initial horror just how brilliant Marcel's work is,...