Madam Satan (1930) | Full Movie | Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth

Madam Satan (1930) Comedy | Romance | Musical | Drama | USA | B&W | 111min | Dir: Cecil B. DeMille w/ Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Lillian Roth, Roland Young A man is bewitched by the mysterious Madam Satan he meets at a lavish masquerade ball. Does this mean the end of his marriage to the demure spouse he left at home? Cecil B. DeMille directs this pre-code musical extravaganza about teaching an errant husband a lesson in love. The risqué plot is a hoot, but what really makes this film is its can-you-believe-it production values: the costume ball, held on a giant dirigible, features a balletic salute to electricity, complete with human spark plugs! Madam Satan has been called one of the oddest films DeMille ever made and certainly one of the oddest MGM made during its golden age. The film originally featured Technicolor sequences that are now lost. Madam Satan feels a bit slow and plodding at first, but things really pickup once the costume ball in the dirigible starts. From that point on, it has to be seen to be believed.