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THE PLAYERS
SYNOPSIS
The Swedish criminal court convenes..
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QUOTES:
Torvald - I could kill that doctor.
PRODUCTION HISTORY
This film is a remake of the Ingrid Bergman, 1939, film made in Sweden.
MY REVIEW
From the beginning, you know whose murder Joan Crawford is on trial for (he is the only character that doesn't show up in the courtroom), so a bit of the suspense is lacking. However, this is a delightful film if you like to watch sheer evil (Conrad Veidt's Torsten Baring) at work.
NOTES OF INTEREST
Books which Mention this movie:
I've Seen That Face Somewhere Before
George Zucco, the defense attorney, famous as Professor Moriarty in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and Henry Daniell played Moriarty in Basil Rathbone's The Lady in Blue.
Marjorie Main, had a bit part in The Return of the Thin Man. In The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao starring Tony Randall, played the wife of the meek man who is turned into stone by the Gorgon.
PHOTOS
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BOOKS/VIDEOS/LASER DISCS
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OTHER WEBSITES
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Conrad Veidt
Torsten Barring
Joan Crawford
Anna Holm
Melvin Douglas
Dr. Gustaf Segert
Clifford Brooke
Wickman
Reginald Owen
Bernard Dalvik
Albert Bassermann
Consul Magnus Barring
Marjorie Main
Emma Kristiansdotter
Donald Meek
Herman Rundvik
Connie Gilchrist
Christina Dalvik
Richard Nichols
Lars-Erik
Osa Massen
Vera Segert
Charles Quigley
Eric
Henry Kolker
Judge
George Zucco
Defense Attorney
Henry Daniell
Public Prosecutor
Gavin Lambert's book ''On Cukor'' isn't a standard bio; it's a series of interviews with Cukor about his films and his career in general. Neither he nor Lambert have a very high opinion of A Woman's Face. They like the first half very much, where Crawford has a ''character'' to work with and she gives an excellent performance free of self-pity, but after her face is fixed, it devolves into a standard suspense scenario with a ''silly happy ending'' (Cukor's words). The only mention of Conrad Veidt is when Lambert observes that ''everything [in the second half] is really blamed on the demonic influence of Conrad Veidt.''
Albert Basserman, who plays Consul Baring, also had a bit role in the movie Escape, also with Veidt. Like Conrad Veidt, Basserman, a German married to a Jewish woman, fled Germany when the Nazia came into power.
Order the video A Woman's Facehere.
Order the biography Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh here.
Corey's Vivien Leigh Home Page>HERE
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