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The Face Behind the Mask

What fiendish fury turns man into monster?

1941 · PG · 1h 9m

Directed by Robert Florey

6.5

TMDB audience score
48 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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Cast

  • 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 Cahill Wilson
    Chief O'Brien

  • George McKay
    Terry Finnegan

  • Ernie Adams
    Hotel Guest (uncredited)

  • Sam Ash
    Mike Cary - Pilot (uncredited)

  • Al Bridge
    Flop House Manager (uncredited)

  • Mary Currier
    Burn Treatment Nurse (uncredited)

  • John Dilson
    Man at Dock Asking for a Light (uncredited)

  • Sarah Edwards
    Mrs. Perkins (uncredited)

  • Eddie Foster
    Street Passerby Lighting Cigarette (uncredited)