Synopsis
The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) is a Warner Bros. crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Director Jean Negulesco adapted Eric Ambler's novel: Dutch mystery writer Leyden is on holiday in Istanbul when the head of the secret police shows him a body pulled from the Bosphorus — Dimitrios Makropolous, a career criminal someone got to before the sea did.
Leyden retraces the dead man's life backwards across Europe, uncovering assassination plots, a morphine smuggling ring, blackmail, and a string of people who trusted Dimitrios and paid for it. Peter Lorre plays the writer with quiet unease; Sydney Greenstreet is the cheerfully sinister Mr. Peters, who has his own angle on everything. The film builds suspense by accumulating a rotten biography rather than staging chases — a trick that holds up. Watch The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) online on iFILM.
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