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Writers:
Joseph Anthony (writer)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (novel)
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Release Date:
22 November 1935 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
I am Sonya! You don't know who or what I am... the police know! They know I'm in love with a murderer! But a woman like me might still save a man's soul! more
Plot:
Man is haunted by a murder he's committed. full summary | add synopsis
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Sternberg self-destructs more (15 total)

Cast

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Peter Lorre ... Roderick Raskolnikov
Edward Arnold ... Insp. Porfiry
Marian Marsh ... Sonya
Tala Birell ... Antonya Raskolnikov
Elisabeth Risdon ... Mrs. Raskolnikov
Robert Allen ... Dmitri
Douglass Dumbrille ... Grilov

Gene Lockhart ... Lushin
Charles Waldron ... University president
Thurston Hall ... Editor
Johnny Arthur ... Clerk
Mrs. Patrick Campbell ... Pawnbroker
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A. Gest ... Clerk
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Runtime:
88 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
Company:
B.P. Schulberg Productions more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Josef von Sternberg was contractually obligated to make this film, and he disliked it, saying in his autobiography that it was "no more related to the true text of the novel than the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower is related to the Russian environment." more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Judging Amy: Crime & Puzzlement (#3.11)" (2001) more

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15 out of 26 people found the following comment useful.
Sternberg self-destructs, 24 July 2001
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Author: Anne Sharp from USA

Inconsolable over his enforced separation from Marlene Dietrich, Sternberg took a passive-aggressive approach to this assignment from Paramount, sabotaging it by neglect at every turn. Given a star performer with infinitely more to offer than Dietrich, the fresh-from-the-continent Peter Lorre, Sternberg chose to work against rather than with him, squashing his attempts to create a coherent interpretation of Raskolnikov and photographing him to look as fat as possible, while mournfully doing his best to make Marian Marsh look Dietrichlike. In squandering the raw materials given to him, from which an ordinary director could have concocted at least a very respectable "Crime and Punishment," Sternberg not only shafted Paramount but did significant damage to Lorre's career (this was meant to have been the prestigious American debut he deserved but never got) as well as his own.

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