Satan in Prison
About Satan in Prison
Georges Méliès, locked in a bare cell, drives off boredom with tricks. Picture frames vanish and return. A fireplace and a dinner table with wine appear. He is the Devil. When the guards come he disappears inside a blanket and leaves them the empty room.
Cast & crew
More about Satan in Prison
Méliès directed and plays the prisoner. Star Film numbered it 1010–1013. The French title is Satan en prison. Two years later he restaged the idea, with many of the same props and a larger cast, as The Diabolic Tenant.
Themes
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The prisoner is Satan, which the last change of costume makes plain.
- The Diabolic Tenant (1909) reuses the trick of furnishing a bare room from nowhere.
- A copy is on the Internet Archive as Satan_in_Prison.
Scenes
- A dinner table and wine appear in the empty cell.
- He vanishes in a blanket as the guards enter.
Influenced
- The Diabolic Tenant (1909)
Also available
- Internet Archive (Satan_in_Prison)
