The Face Behind the Mask (1941)

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   nbats

   https://youtu.be/REI8KPgNdCQ 3 years 6 months ago
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   Siskoid

   The Face Behind the Mask looks like it's marketed as a horror film, but it's really a crime picture, with Peter Lorre as a naive immigrant in New York whose life spirals downward after he is disfigured in a fire. The light humor in the first act evaporates as he turns to crime to survive, but he might get pulled out of the darkness by an unlikely romance with a poetic young woman. It's fun to see Lorre in a "heroic" and even "romantic" role, running on pathos, if nothing else. But while the story is all over the place, it's certainly never predictable, or if it is, not for long. A bleak pulp tale that keeps changing its genre, and somehow, Lorre manages to be great in each. 5 years 7 months ago
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   duchin6

   not a bad film noir ,Peter Lorre very good.. 8 years 4 months ago

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