Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.
Directed by Josef von Sternberg
murder
pawnshop
police inspector
criminology
Trailer
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3.4 / 5
Cast
Edward Arnold
Inspector Porfiry
Peter Lorre
Roderick Raskolnikov
Marian Marsh
Sonya
Tala Birell
Antonya Raskolnikov
Elisabeth Risdon
Mrs. Raskolnikov
Robert Allen
Dmitri
Douglass Dumbrille
Grilov
Gene Lockhart
Lushin
Thurston Hall
Editor
Crew
Josef von Sternberg
Director
Lucien Ballard
Director of Photography
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novel
Popular Reviews
6 reviews
christy
7.0★ · 03/18/25
i am not familiar with the actual crime and punishment story. so i can’t judge this on that. but this is kind of just peter lorre doing his thing and it’s great. some of the dialogue and just his little actions were also pretty funny to me (yelling about the cigarette sign. pictures of napoleon and beethoven. smashing hat. more.) the ending wasn’t fantastic but it wasn’t bad enough to really bring it down. none of the other actors really gave anything that interesting. some of the lighting was pretty cool.
tldr: peter lorre is amazing
i am not familiar with the actual crime and punishment story. so i can’t judge this on that. but this is kind of just peter lorre doing his thing and it’s great. some of the dialogue and just his little actions were also pretty funny to me (yelling about the cigarette sign. pictures of napoleon and beethoven. smashing hat. more.) the ending wasn’t fantastic but it wasn’t bad enough to really bring it down. none of the other actors really gave anything that interesting. some of the lighting was pretty cool.
