Critical opinion has not been kind to this film. In his 1977 BFI Monograph Walter Forde, Geoff Brown cites it as an example of the type of "shoddiness and...
The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1936) April 29, 1936 The 55th Street Playhouse Offers a Film Version of Jerome's 'Passing of the Third Floor Back.' By...
I wish the boat scene were included. They leave Gwynplaine on shore then have a most unusual....and brief trip. Another 12 minutes would flesh out some...
Your initial posts were moderated. Now that I've seen them and confirmed you're not a spammer, you're granted full priveleges. Thanks for joining, and lets...
Hello Everyone, Just wanted all to know we celebrated Miss Veidts bithday this weekend a bit late ( her birthday was August 10 ) at the Ritz Carlton in New...
Today a friend showed me something very disturbing in the National Examiner ("America's Favorite Family Weekly") which reminded me of the Conrad Veidt film,...
The opening theme was taken from part of Ophelia's mad scene in the opera Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas. It is repeated a bit at the piano. The opera is rarely...
The Cheap Detective is a Neil Simon spoof on Casablanca and Maltese Falcon. Nicol Williamson is pretty good in the Veidt role, and Peter Falk in the Bogart....
I'm delighted to find this forum. It was "A Woman's Face" where Veidt just took my breath away with just the slightest expression. "Lucifer in a Tuxedo" was...
Awhile back I found (through the wonders of abebooks.com) a copy of a book called "Rampenlicht" by Paul Walter Jacob, published in 1945. In the 1920s Jacob...
"Powell, Pressburger, Veidt, Hobson, Junge, and Others" has now appeared in cineACTION 79 (2009): 21-26. (It looks like those bright sparks" there have omitted...
References Allen, Jerry C (1993) Conrad Veidt: From Caligari to Casablanca, Pacific Grove, California: The Boxwood Press. Altman, Rick (1989). The American...
A short modern trailer for "Unheimliche Geschichten" has been posted on YouTube. The trailer was apparently prepared for a showing of the film in Toronto some...
Hello! I'm new here and haven't posted yet. I just wanted everyone to know that Nazi Agent is on You tube, in eight parts. Here is the link to the first...
"Above Suspicion" has just appeared on YouTube, posted in segments. Here's a link to the opening minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYYLecR3N0I ...
Another CV candid photo showed up on eBay some days ago, this time a print rather than a negative. I think it was from a different seller than the three...
During 1927, the son and daughter of Thomas Mann travel to America and visit a Los Angeles "devoid of character..strangely lacking in substance, and form, in...
Last night I watched this film on a fair copy after first seeing it in pristine condition at the National Film Theatre in London over 30 years ago. It was so...
When I went back to YouTube to watch more of "Nächte am Bosporus" I found another surprise, just posted: a user named "Musimug" has put up an ad for a DVD of...
Connie has a relatively short role in this film and, as one critic has noted, at least his last appearance does not see him as a Nazi but as a resistance...
It is really sad that Hollywood thanked Veidt's return to Hollywood with only typical villain roles-although they are fun to watch because of his talent,it...
I watched this film last night not being a particular fan of Red Skelton. However, Connie really fitted well into the context of this comedy thriller by not...
This 2008 anthology edited by Tim Bergfelder and Christian Cargnelli contains an excellent essay by Gerd Gemuenden, "Allegories of DisPlacement: Conrad Veidt's...
I just added to Viola,s photo album a picture we just recieved of her and her pet Siamese cat taken in the early 1980,s, hope you enjoy,Viola always loved...
