The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)

Directors

Jean Negulesco

Cast

Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Peter Lorre, Faye Emerson

The story

In 1938, the Dutch mystery writer Cornelius Leyden is visiting Istanbul. At an evening soiree, a fan, Colonel Haki of the Turkish police, believes he would be interested in the story of international intriguer and master criminal Dimitrios Makropoulos, whose body was just washed up on a local beach. Leyden is immediately captivated by what he learns about the Salonika-born one-time fig packer's tale.

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