TCM at 10:45pm: Josef von Sternbergs CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (1935) - TopicsExpress

TCM at 10:45pm: Josef von Sternbergs CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (1935) was a relatively impersonal assignment for the director during an era of newfound studio respectability in which it was considered uplifting to squeeze the five-foot shelf into the 35-millimeter screen. Sternberg inherited the script and offbeat casting as part of his two-film Columbia contract. He plows ahead industriously against the Dostoyevski grain with dominant gestures that are, as usual, more physical than metaphysical and which reveal no genuine grasp of evil and criminality as facts of life and facets of character. With stylish bravado, Peter Lorre is allowed to exhibit mock megalomania through Napoleonic and Nietzschean poses. He is countered with Edward Arnolds Inspector Porfiry, a father figure too civilized to mind youthful impetuosity and too mature not to care about its emotional consequences. Thus, Sternberg was less into a faithful adaptation and more into expressing his trademarks of male duality and of heroes with strains of unexpected sweetness.

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