The Face Behind the Mask

Jan 16, 1941

1h 9m

★ 6.5

What fiendish fury turns man into monster?

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.

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

Áron stands in his life as an average 29-year-old weirdo. He has many contemporary complexes, a fresh university degree, and a recent break up. His parents have to support him financially as he is still a job seeker and while Áron is agonizing on his lost love, he is always interrupted by something; it seems like he’s not the main character in his life.

6.9

Hardly a Criminal

Mar 22, 1949

A bank employee uses a loophole in Argentine law to concoct the perfect crime, planning to reap the rewards of his embezzlement after serving six years in prison…

6.3

The Black Vampire

Oct 14, 1953

A cabaret performer tries to protect her daughter from a mysterious killer while resisting the advances of the prosecutor pursuing the criminal.

7.3

Murder, My Sweet

Dec 14, 1944

After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.

5.9

The Brasher Doubloon

Feb 6, 1947

Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's collection. Marlowe begins investigating, but quickly finds himself entangled in a series of unexplained murders.

6.0

Lady in the Lake

Dec 19, 1946

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.

6.1

Crime of Passion

Dec 28, 1956

Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.

7.1

Angel Face

Jan 2, 1953

Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.

7.6

Laura

Oct 11, 1944

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

6.7

Goodnight, My Love

Oct 17, 1972

Gruff gumshoe Francis Hogan is hired by a mysterious woman to find her boyfriend who has gone missing. With his perpetually hungry partner in tow, Hogan must untangle a web of intrigue involving the criminal underworld and a dead courier. One double-cross follows another as Hogan investigates the whole sordid affair.

5.8

Child of Sorrow

Mar 20, 1956

A war hero forced to participate in a smuggling ring meets a prostitute in the postwar ruins of Manila.

7.7

The Big Heat

Oct 14, 1953

After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.

7.3

The Killers

Aug 30, 1946

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.

7.5

Fury

Jun 5, 1936

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

5.5

Redhead

Jun 29, 1962

Bored with her marriage, Franziska decides to travel to Venice.