![]() Like Citizen Kane, the film is structured around flashbacks as various characters around the Continent offer sordid snapshots from the scoundrel’s rise in fortunes in the escalating chaos of pre-war Europe. ![]() This time around, Lorre plays a sympathetic and befuddled crime novelist who researches the career of a mysterious criminal named Dimitrios (Zachary Scott in his slimy, beaky, pencil-moustached film debut) after the latter’s body has washed up on the beach in Istanbul. Their previous films were The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Background to Danger (also based on Ambler), and Passage to Marseille. ![]() A Coffin for Dimitrios) and also for being the fifth in a series of thrillers co-starring Sydney Greenstreet (identified in the trailer as “The Fat Man”) with Peter Lorre (“The Little Man”). At the time, its chief selling point was in being based on a popular novel by Eric Ambler (a.k.a. ![]() Freshly available on demand from Warner Archive is this slice of 1940s atmosphere that contributed to the burgeoning style dubbed “film noir” by French critics. ![]()
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