Top billed cast

1. 

   Joan Crawford

   Anna Holm

2. 

   Melvyn Douglas

   Dr. Gustaf Segert

3. 

   Conrad Veidt

   Torsten Barring

4. 

   Osa Massen

   Vera Segert

5. 

   Reginald Owen

   Bernard Dalvik

6. 

   Albert Bassermann

   Consul Magnus Barring

7. 

   Marjorie Main

   Emma Kristiansdotter

8. 

   Donald Meek

   Herman Rundvik

9. 

   Connie Gilchrist

   Christina Dalvik

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-25

Joan Crawford ("Anna") is on top form in this adept Cukorian adaptation of Francis de Croisset's play. Set in Sweden, she is a young girl scarred after an accident in her home many years earlier. Feeling herself rejected by society, she turns to petty blackmail with "Barring" (Conrad Veidt) and alights on the cheating wife "Vera" (Isa Massen) of plastic surgeon "Gustaf" (Melvyn Douglas). Whilst amidst her extortion attempts, she is apprehended by the doctor who mistakes her for a burglar. Persuaded not to call the police by his wife, "Gustaf" turns his attention to her disfigurement, and offer...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$1,343,000.00

Revenue
$1,907,000.00

Keywords

• sleigh
• blackmail
• transformation
• love letter
• plastic surgery
• child in peril
• little boy
• film noir
• bitterness
• disfigured face
• uncle nephew relationship
• governess
• adulteress
• cable car
• murder trial
• old hollywood
• aversion to mirrors