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Crime and Punishment

  • 19351935
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 28m
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6.9/10
2.1K
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Crime and Punishment (1935)
CrimeDrama
Man is haunted by a murder he's committed.Man is haunted by a murder he's committed.Man is haunted by a murder he's committed.
IMDb RATING
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    • Josef von Sternberg
    • Joseph Anthony
    • Fyodor Dostoevsky(novel "Crime and Punishment")
    • S.K. Lauren
  • Stars
    • Edward Arnold
    • Peter Lorre
    • Marian Marsh
    • Josef von Sternberg
    • Joseph Anthony
    • Fyodor Dostoevsky(novel "Crime and Punishment")
    • S.K. Lauren
  • Stars
    • Edward Arnold
    • Peter Lorre
    • Marian Marsh
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 36User reviews
    • 31Critic reviews
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    Peter Lorre in Crime and Punishment (1935)
    Peter Lorre in Crime and Punishment (1935)
    Peter Lorre, Edward Arnold, Tala Birell, and Marian Marsh in Crime and Punishment (1935)
    Crime and Punishment (1935)
    Tala Birell in Crime and Punishment (1935)
    Tala Birell and Marian Marsh in Crime and Punishment (1935)
    Peter Lorre and Elisabeth Risdon in Crime and Punishment (1935)
    Peter Lorre and Edward Arnold in Crime and Punishment (1935)
    Peter Lorre and Edward Arnold in Crime and Punishment (1935)
    Peter Lorre and Marian Marsh in Crime and Punishment (1935)
    Peter Lorre and Edward Arnold in Crime and Punishment (1935)
    Marian Marsh in Crime and Punishment (1935)

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    Edward Arnold
    Edward Arnold
    • Insp. Porfiry
    Peter Lorre
    Peter Lorre
    • Roderick Raskolnikov
    Marian Marsh
    Marian Marsh
    • Sonya
    Tala Birell
    Tala Birell
    • Antonya Raskolnikov
    Elisabeth Risdon
    Elisabeth Risdon
    • Mrs. Raskolnikov
    Robert Allen
    Robert Allen
    • Dmitri
    Douglass Dumbrille
    Douglass Dumbrille
    • Grilov
    Gene Lockhart
    Gene Lockhart
    • Lushin
    Charles Waldron
    • University president
    Thurston Hall
    Thurston Hall
    • Editor
    Johnny Arthur
    Johnny Arthur
    • Clerk
    Mrs. Patrick Campbell
    Mrs. Patrick Campbell
    • Pawnbroker
    A. Gest
    • Clerk
    Edith Arnold
    Edith Arnold
    • Nastasya
    • (uncredited)
    Michael Arshasky
    • Clerk
    • (uncredited)
    George Blagoi
    George Blagoi
    • Clerk
    • (uncredited)
    Nana Bryant
    Nana Bryant
    • Madam
    • (uncredited)
    Davison Clark
    • Cop
    • (uncredited)
      • Josef von Sternberg
      • Joseph Anthony
      • Fyodor Dostoevsky(novel "Crime and Punishment")
      • S.K. Lauren
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    • Trivia
      [Mrs. Patrick Campbell on Josef von Sternberg] I grasped how foolish I had been to imagine for one moment that there was going to be any intelligent pleasure in working even with this man. He wanted only obedience and silence to get his own effects. Anything in my face and figure that wasn't ugly enough, he made into a camera distortion. The director and the cameraman together did the 'acting' of my short role, helped, I suppose, by the cutting room. When I saw the rushes, I knew beyond question that no director asks for imagination, gifts, or experience from the artist. I had myself wished to put the necessary horror and ugliness into my face, voice, and movements, but instead it was achieved through the exaggeration of every shadow on my face, and even of the pores of my skin.
    • Goofs
      Raskolnikov asks for "30 rubles, not a penny more, not a penny less". A penny is equal to 1/100th of such currencies as the dollar and the pound. What he meant was "kopek", the Russian unit of currency equal to 1/100th of a ruble, something he and other characters would know.
    • Quotes

      Landlady: Good afternoon. We haven't seen much of you these past two days. Have you been praying or only fasting?

      Roderick Raskolnikov: I've been contemplating life.

      Landlady: You better contemplate the rent! I haven't had a penny out of you in six months! How much longer do you expect me to wait?

    • Crazy credits
      One of the credits reads "Story by Dostoievsky". There is an asterisk next to this credit, and at the bottom it says, "Feodor Dostoievsky, Russia's foremost author, wrote 'Crime and Punishment' in 1866'".
    • Connections
      Referenced in Love and Death (1975)

    User reviews36

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    6/10
    Sternberg self-destructs
    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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    • Release date
      • January 11, 1936 (Sweden)
      • United States
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Columbia/Sunset Gower Studios - 1438 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • B.P. Schulberg Productions
      • Columbia Pictures
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    • 1 hour 28 minutes
      • Black and White

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