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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.
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- Joseph Anthony
- Fyodor Dostoevsky(novel "Crime and Punishment")
- S.K. Lauren
- Stars
- Joseph Anthony
- Fyodor Dostoevsky(novel "Crime and Punishment")
- S.K. Lauren
- Stars
Edith Arnold
- Nastasya
- (uncredited)
Michael Arshasky
- Clerk
- (uncredited)
George Blagoi
- Clerk
- (uncredited)
Nana Bryant
- Madam
- (uncredited)
Davison Clark
- Cop
- (uncredited)
- 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.
- GoofsRaskolnikov 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 creditsOne 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'".
- ConnectionsReferenced in Love and Death (1975)
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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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- Anne_Sharp
- Jul 24, 2001
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