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Director
  
Josef von Sternberg

Adapted from
  
Crime and Punishment

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Crime, Drama

Music director
  
Louis Silvers

Language
  
English

Crime and Punishment (1935 American film) movie poster

Writer
  
Joseph Anthony
,
S.K. Lauren

Release date
  
November 22, 1935 (1935-11-22) (U.S.)

Based on
  
Crime and Punishment 1866 novel  by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Cast
  
Edward Arnold
(Inspector Porfiry),
Peter Lorre
(Roderick Raskolnikov),
Marian Marsh
(Sonya),
Tala Birell
(Antonya Raskolnikov),
Elisabeth Risdon
(Mrs. Raskolnikov),
Robert (Tex) Allen
(Dmitri)

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From Russia With Love
,
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,
Dr. No
,
The Living Daylights
,
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,
The Boy Next Door

Tagline
  
I am Sonya! You don't know who or what I am... the police know! They know I'm in love with a murderer! But a woman like me might still save a man's soul!

Movie crime and punishment 1935


Crime and Punishment is a 1935 film directed by Josef von Sternberg for Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was adapted by Joseph Anthony and S.K. Lauren from Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of the same title. The film stars Peter Lorre in the lead role of Raskolnikov (here named Roderick instead of Rodion).

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Von Sternberg, who was contractually obliged to make the film, disliked it, later writing that it was "no more related to the true text of the novel than the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower is related to the Russian environment."

Crime and Punishment (1935 American film) movie scenes

The Library of Congress holds a print.

Crime and Punishment (1935 American film) movie scenes

Cast

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  • Peter Lorre - Roderick Raskolnikov
  • Edward Arnold - Inspector Porfiry
  • Marian Marsh - Sonya
  • Tala Birell - Antonya Raskolnikov
  • Elizabeth Risdon - Mrs. Raskolnikov (as Elisabeth Risdon)
  • Robert Allen - Dmitri
  • Douglas Dumbrille - Grilov
  • Gene Lockhart - Lushin
  • Charles Waldron - University President
  • Thurston Hall - Editor
  • Johnny Arthur - Clerk
  • Mrs. Patrick Campbell - Pawnbroker
  • References

    Crime and Punishment (1935 American film) Wikipedia
    Crime and Punishment (1935 American film) IMDb Crime and Punishment (1935 American film) themoviedb.org