The Face Behind the Mask
What fiendish fury turns man into monster?
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1/16/1941Runtime
69 minsOverview
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.
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A noir-inflected tragedy about a man whose dreams of American promise are literally burned away, leaving him to navigate a world that now sees him as a monster. It's a taut 69-minute study in how circumstance and cruelty can reshape a person's destiny.
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Heads up
Peter Lorre
Janos 'Johnny' Szabo
Evelyn Keyes
Helen Williams
Don Beddoe
Lt. James 'Jim' O'Hara
George E. Stone
Dinky
John Tyrrell
Watts
Cy Schindell
Benson
Stanley Brown
Harry
James Seay
Jeff Jeffries
Warren Ashe
Johnson, Reporter
Charles C. Wilson
Chief O'Brien
George McKay
Terry Finnegan
Ernie Adams
Hotel Guest (uncredited)
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