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The Face Behind the Mask

The Face Behind the Mask

CrimeDramaHorror

6.5/10

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US

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en

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69 min

Release Date: 1941-01-16

Overview - A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire.

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

Overview - A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire.

User Reviews

John Chard

John Chard

7.5/10

The face behind the mask, it's mutated, hideous, a horrible nightmare. Out of which I can never awake. The Face Behind The Mask is directed by Robert Florey and collectively written by Paul Jarrico, Arthur Levinson and Allen Vincent. It stars Peter Lorre, Evelyn Keyes, Don Beddoe and George E. Stone. Music is by Sidney Cutner and cinematography by Franz Planer. Hungarian immigrant Janos Szab...

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tmdb28039023

3/10

It is a testament to Peter Lorre's versatile facial language that he could contort his face into a rictus of dementia and corruption in M, and 10 years later but with essentially the same features, smile a sweet smile of innocence and candor as the Hungarian immigrant Janos Szabo in The Face Behind the Mask. Janos, watchmaker and self-proclaimed “mechanical genius” arrives in New York in search...

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

7/10

Peter Lorre is "Janos", an enthusiastic, honest, watch-maker who has arrived in New York from Europe hoping to make his way and bring his beloved "Marie" to join him. He alights on the kindly policeman "O'Hara" (Don Beddoe) who recommends lodgings for him and off he goes. Tragedy strikes though as one of his fellow residents is doing a bit of illicit cooking and "Janos" awakens, disfigured and una...

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