Directed by:
Boris IngsterCinematography:
Nicholas MusuracaComposer:
Roy WebbCast:
Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Charles Waldron, Elisha Cook Jr., Charles Halton, Ethel Griffies, Cliff Clark, Oscar O'Shea, Alec Craig (more)Plots(1)
Peter Lorre plays the eerie title role in this once-neglected gem about a reporter (John McGuire) whose testimony sentences a small-time loser (Elisha Cook Jr.) to the electric chair for murder. When the reporter himself is fingered in a second murder, he realizes both crimes are the work of a furtive stranger - but will anyone believe him? All the shadowy, shivery, angled angst of German Expressionism is here, married to the hard-boiled moral ambiguity that marks the genre. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Peter Lorre
Austria-Hungary
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John McGuire
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Margaret Tallichet
USA
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Charles Waldron
USA
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Elisha Cook Jr.
USA
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Charles Halton
USA
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Ethel Griffies
UK
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Cliff Clark
USA
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Oscar O'Shea
Canada
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Alec Craig
UK
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Otto Hoffman
USA
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Gladden James
USA
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Emory Parnell
USA
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Herb Vigran
USA
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Donald Kerr
USA
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Bobby Barber
USA
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Paul McVey
USA
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Dell Henderson
Canada
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Frank Yaconelli
Italy
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Henry Roquemore
USA
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