My favorite part about watching this trailer was realizing that I first saw Vincent Kartheiser in a film called Another Day in Paradise and that he’s the guy who played Pete Campbell on Mad Men.
Look at this punk:
My favorite part about watching this trailer was realizing that I first saw Vincent Kartheiser in a film called Another Day in Paradise and that he’s the guy who played Pete Campbell on Mad Men.
Look at this punk:
Before I can start on you,
you have to be shaved clean and close. I perfected my own special technique before I was kicked out of the Medical Association. My method is based partly on calling a spade a spade. I don't monkey around. -Have you got the money? -Yeah, you want it now? Sam said you could afford $200. Put it on the table there. Ever see any botched plastic jobs? If a man like me didn't like a fellow... he could surely fix him up for life. Make him look like a bulldog or a monkey. I'll make you look older, but good. -I'll make you look as if you've lived. -I have, Doc. I hope I'm not a coward when you start in. We're all cowards.
One of the most unusual things about this film is the fact that women characters frequently speak to each other without a man present. Also, Christopher Lee has an American accent and the hero is a student in the Humanities.
This is pretty weird. Turn the sound down.
This film has it all: a vivid color palette courtesy of Eastman Kodak, the lingering trauma of WWII, a playful Swinging London vibe, plastic surgery, actual circus performances, and a sadistic and disgraced doctor of vaguely eastern European provenance.
The institution of the family is fertile terrain for the gothic: the occasionally intolerable intimacy, the sense of entrapment, the psychodramas of resistance and authority.
h/t Julio
Peter Lorre (László Löwenstein) as Roderick Raskolnikov in the 1935 adaptation of Crime and Punishment, directed by Josef von Sternberg. Note this character’s first name.
Read the NYT review from 1935: http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9800E3DA173CE733A25751C2A9679D946494D6CF