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Director
  
Robert Florey

Cinematography
  
Arthur L. Todd

Duration
  

Language
  
English

6.2/10
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Genre
  
Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Costume design
  
Orry-Kelly

Country
  
United States

The Florentine Dagger movie poster

Release date
  
March 30, 1935 (1935-03-30)

Writer
  
Ben Hecht (by), Tom Reed (screen play), Brown Holmes (additional dialogue)

Genres
  
Drama, Mystery, Detective fiction, Crime Fiction, Crime Thriller

Similar movies
  
Death Comes to Pemberley
,
The Remains of the Day
,
Sense and Sensibility
,
The Secret Garden
,
The Visitors
,
House of Flying Daggers

Cat in the florentine dagger


The Florentine Dagger is a 1935 American film noir mystery film directed by Robert Florey. Donald Woods plays a descendant of the Borgia line, convinced that he's inherited their murderous tendencies. Suspicions deepen when the father of the girl he loves turns up stabbed to death with a Florentine dagger.

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The Florentine Dagger movie scenes

The film numbers among the first Hollywood movies in which psychoanalysis is a significant factor in the story.

The Florentine Dagger movie scenes

Cast

  • Donald Woods as Juan Cesare
  • Margaret Lindsay as Florence Ballau
  • C. Aubrey Smith as Dr. Lytton
  • Henry O'Neill as Victor Ballau
  • Robert Barrat as Inspector Von Brinkner
  • Florence Fair as Teresa Holspar
  • Frank Reicher as Stage Manager
  • Charles Judels as Hotel Proprietor
  • Rafaela Ottiano as Lili Salvatore
  • Paul Porcasi as Italian policeman
  • Eily Malyon as Fredericka, mask maker
  • Egon Brecher as Lytton's butler
  • Herman Bing as The baker
  • Henry Kolker as The auctioneer
  • References

    The Florentine Dagger Wikipedia
    The Florentine Dagger IMDb The Florentine Dagger themoviedb.org