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The Man Who Reclaimed His Head is a 1934 American drama film directed by Edward Ludwig and written by Jean Bart and Samuel Ornitz. The film stars Claude Rains, Joan Bennett, Lionel Atwill, Juanita Quigley, Henry O'Neill and Henry Armetta.
The Man Who Reclaimed His Head: Directed by Edward Ludwig. With Claude Rains, Joan Bennett, Lionel Atwill, Juanita Quigley. A brilliant but impoverished writer, who is a pacifist, goes to work for a publisher and writes anti-war editorials.
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- Drama, Mystery
- Edward Ludwig
- 1934-12-24
A brilliant but impoverished writer, who is a pacifist, goes to work for a publisher and writes anti-war editorials. When he discovers that the publisher has betrayed him and is in league with munitions manufacturers to make money off of war, he goes insane.
U.S. Theatre: The Man Who Reclaimed His Head. TIME. Sept. 19, 1932. The head, in this case, is that of Henri Berthaud, Wartime Premier of France, which an army officer deposits on a...
Brief Synopsis. A brilliant but impoverished writer, who is a pacifist, goes to work for a publisher and writes anti-war editorials. When he discovers that the publisher has betrayed him and is in league with munitions manufacturers to make money off of war, he goes insane.
- Edward Ludwig, Fred Frank, W. J. Reiter
- Claude Rains
Passionate intellectual Paul Verin (Claude Rains) writes editorials decrying war and capitalist profiteering and allows politician Henry Dumont (Lionel Atwill) to take credit for his words in the...
- Drama
Claude Rains plays Paul Verin, a pacifist writer with a great heart and mind but no ambition. Lionel Atwill plays Henry Dumont, the head of a newspaper chain who has no heart, a mediocre mind, and great ambition. The second type of man always needs the first type of man, and this sets up our story.
