The Devil Commands (1941) - Man Behind the Mask [The Face Behind the Mask] (1941) - Newspaper Ad [San Francisco Examiner - February 24, 1941]

The Devil Commands, the "top half" of this so-called Double Terror Show, stars the legendary Boris Karloff as a scientist obsessed with communicating with his dead wife. I have never seen it. The same goes for The Face Behind the Mask, which the ad changes the title of to Man Behind the Mask for some reason. That has Peter Lorre playing a disfigured watch-maker whose rage at society drives him to a life of crime.

The former was directed by Edward Dmytryk, who might be best known for directing 1954's The Caine Mutiny. The latter was directed by Robert Florey, who also directed the Marx brothers in The Cocoanuts, Bela Lugosi in Murders in the Rue Morgue, and Peter Lorre, once again, in The Beast with Five Fingers.

Florey also directed two banger episodes from the first season of The Twilight Zone. Perchance to Dream (Episode 9) and The Fever (Episode 17). His final directing credit was for a first season episode of The Outer Limits. Moonstone (Episode 24).