Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
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Features
• Black & White
• NTSC
In Theaters : 01 July, 1944
Video Release : 09 June, 1997 |
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Mask of Dimitrios (1944) Customer Reviews
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The febrile attempt to reconstruct the story of a dissipated life!
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Objectively speaking, the narrative process of this sensational film has many issues in common with a previous film: citizen Kane and another later picture: The third man. But a personal advise; you are watching a film based on a novel of Eric ambler, and this is a very relevant aspect to underline, due the fatal perspective according the British thrillers overlooks the existential consequences and focuses with major sharpness the transcendence of a criminal mind over the public opinion.
A humble and forgotten writer - Cornelius Latimer Leyden - is intrigued when the Istanbul police chief shows him the murdered body of Dimitrios a criminal with a background worthy to appear on the Record Guinness. And because if that Cornelius knows he may find a very rewarding lode to make some money and (at last!) to be acknowledged by the rest of the world.
The rest of this tense story runs for you. Jean Negulesco would direct two others Noir films, Nobody lives forever and Road house, but at least to my mind this was his best achievement.
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