{"id":37992,"date":"2024-12-14T21:48:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T02:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37992"},"modified":"2024-12-14T21:48:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T02:48:16","slug":"the-mask-of-dimitrios-1944-starring-peter-lorre-sydney-greenstreet-and-zachary-scott-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37992","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Mask of Dimitrios&#8221; (1944) starring Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet and Zachary Scott \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z121424zview_maskofdimitiros.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"765\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>The Mask of Dimitrios <\/i>(1944)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: \u00a0<strong>Jean Negulesco<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Frank Gruber;<\/strong> based on THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS by Eric Ambler<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Steven Geray, Eduardo Ciannelli, Kurt Katch, John Abbott, Monte Blue, David Hoffman <\/strong>and <strong>Vince Barnett<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Thrilling successor to &#8220;The Maltese Falcon&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cornelius Leyden, a mystery writer, is spending a night in Istanbul.\u00a0 Leyden meets Colonel Haki, a Turkish police offical.\u00a0 Haki is a fan of Leyden&#8217;s books.\u00a0 Haki shares the story of Dimitrios Makropoulos, a famous international criminal who was recently found murdered.\u00a0 Leyden is intrigued.\u00a0 Colonel Haki allows Leyden to see Makropoulos&#8217; corpse.\u00a0 Haki also gives Leyden background info on the dead man.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leyden decides to interview those who knew Dimitrios Makropoulos and perhaps write a book about the criminal mastermind.\u00a0 As Leyden digs deeper he learns just how cunning and brutal Dimitrios Makropoulos was.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe cunning enough to fake his own death.\u00a0 Maybe cunning enough to kill anyone looking into his life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Peter Lorre had the most screen time of anyone in the film.\u00a0 Yet, he was given fourth billing.\u00a0 Lorre was listed behind Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott (in his first feature film) and Faye Emmerson (who had a small role).\u00a0 Lorre felt that his lowered status was because Jack L. Warner (one of the studio heads) was not a fan.<\/p>\n<p>Orson Welles played Colonel Haki in <em>Journey into Fear<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>The Mask of Dimitrios <\/i>(1944) <\/em><\/strong>rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z121424zview_maskofdimitiros2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) Director: \u00a0Jean Negulesco Screenplay: Frank Gruber; based on THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS by Eric Ambler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,52,17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37993,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37992\/revisions\/37993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}