Regie:
Josef von SternbergCamera:
Lucien BallardMuziek:
Louis SilversActeurs:
Peter Lorre, Edward Arnold, Marian Marsh, Tala Birell, Elisabeth Risdon, Robert Allen, Douglass Dumbrille, Gene Lockhart, Thurston Hall, Johnny Arthur (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
The story goes that Peter Lorre wanted to star in a film version of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, but was certain that Columbia Pictures chieftain Harry Cohn would turn the project down flat. So Lorre hired a secretary to type up a synopsis of the story in words of one syllable then submitted this simplified resume to Cohn. Enthusiastic over the project, Cohn gave Lorre the go-ahead -- but first he asked "Tell me -- has this book got a publisher?" Apocryphal story or no, the fact is that Lorre did star in Columbia's Crime and Punishment and in the bargain was directed by the ultra-stylish Josef Von Sternberg. As the arrogant sociopath Raskolnikov, who is convinced that he can get away with the murder of a nasty pawnbroker because he is "above" such intangibles as a conscience, Lorre is excellent, especially when his bravado is slowly eroded by the gentle but determined Inspector Porfiri (Edward Arnold). Like the aforementioned typed-up synopsis, the film oversimplifies the Dostoyevsky original, concentrating only on the crime, the pangs of guilt, the confession and the arrest: the punishment and its aftermath, so essential to the novel's overall impact, are dispensed with entirely. To make the film even more accessible to a mass audience, the story is subtly updated, though any distinctly "contemporary" touches such as automobiles, telephones and current slang are studiously avoided. The supporting cast is wildly inconsistent: Mrs. Patrick Campbell is fine in her brief scenes as the vitriolic pawnbroker, but Marian Marsh is all wrong as the streetwalker heroine Sonya. The principal strength of this Crime and Punishment is the film-long game of cat-and-mouse between the reckless Raskolnikov and the quietly methodical Porfiri. (officiële tekst van distribiteur)
(meer)Acteurs
Peter Lorre
Oostenrijk-Hongarije
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Casablanca (1942)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Edward Arnold
USA
Beste films:
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He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Marian Marsh
Beste films:
Hell's Angels (1930)
The Black Room (1935)
Svengali (1931)
Tala Birell
Roemenië
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Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Elisabeth Risdon
Groot Brittanië
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Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Random Harvest (1942)
Robert Allen
USA
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Die verduivelde waarheid (1937)
The Black Room (1935)
Douglass Dumbrille
Canada
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
De tien Geboden (1956)
Gene Lockhart
Canada
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Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Madame Curie (1943)
Thurston Hall
USA
Beste films:
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Virginia City (1940)
Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
Johnny Arthur
USA
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You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Nana Bryant
USA
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Harvey (1950)
Rafaela Ottiano
Italië
Beste films:
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Marie Antoinette (1938)
The Devil Doll (1936)
Robert Middlemass
USA
Beste films:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
A Day at the Races (1937)
The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
Hal Price
USA
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
It Happened One Night (1934)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Harry Semels
USA
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The Great Dictator (1940)
Sunrise (1927)
It Happened One Night (1934)
George McKay
Keizerrijk Rusland
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Face Behind the Mask (1941)
Going My Way (1944)
Al Ferguson
Ierland
Beste films:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Gaslight (1944)
East of Eden (1955)
Russ Powell
USA
Beste films:
Modern Times (1936)
The Mysterious Lady (1928)
Flesh and the Devil (1926)
Frank Fanning
USA
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After the Thin Man (1936)
King Kong (1933)
John Doe, de man die het meende (1941)
Charles Waldron
USA
Beste films:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)