The Face Behind the Mask

Jan 16, 1941

1h 9m

★ 6.5

What fiendish fury turns man into monster?

Overview

A sweet, 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.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Horror

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

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Cast

Janos 'Johnny' Szabo

Peter Lorre

Helen Williams

Evelyn Keyes

Lt. James 'Jim' O'Hara

Don Beddoe

Dinky

George E. Stone

Watts

John Tyrrell

Benson

Cy Schindell

Harry

Stanley Brown

Jeff Jeffries

James Seay

Johnson, Reporter

Warren Ashe

Chief O'Brien

Charles C. Wilson

Terry Finnegan

George McKay

Hotel Guest (uncredited)

Ernie Adams

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

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