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The Mask of Dimitrios is a 1944 American film noir starring Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Peter Lorre, and Victor Francen. Directed by Jean Negulesco, it was written by Frank Gruber, based on the 1939 novel of the same title written by Eric Ambler. [1] Scott played the title role, of Dimitrios Makropoulos, in his film debut.
Mystery writer Charles Latimer meets Colonel Haki of the Turkish police. Haki believes Latimer would be interested in the career of the notorious criminal Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an Istanbul morgue.
The Mask of Dimitrios. Eric Ambler. 3.92. 10,738 ratings924 reviews. A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel leads Charles Latimer, the author of a handful of successful mysteries, into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers.
The Mask of Dimitrios: Directed by Jean Negulesco. With Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Peter Lorre. Mystery writer Cornelius Leyden becomes intrigued after the murdered body of a vicious career criminal washes up in the Bosphorus.
While on vacation in Istanbul, mystery novelist Cornelius Leyden (Peter Lorre) is given the opportunity to view the body of the recently deceased criminal mastermind Dimitrios Makropoulos...
- Mystery & Thriller
Needing to run from the police, Dimitrios borrows a large sum of money from Irana, never to return. While enroute to Sofia, Bulgaria, Leyden meets “Mr. Peters” (Greenstreet), a man who has a vendetta against Dimitrios.
criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, to learn more about the man. Along the way, he is joined by mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
He hears about a man called Dimitrios, a notorious criminal figure, who has apparently died. Then he decides—slightly implausibly, it has to be said—that he’ll turn detective and find out what really happened to Dimitrios, and ends up in a chase across Europe.”
When the body of the notorious Dimitrios Makropoulos is found stabbed and drowned at the sea coast of Istanbul, Colonel Haki meets the Dutch writer Cornelius Leyden at a party and tells the story of the criminal to the writer.
It is from him that he first hears of the mysterious Dimitrios - an infamous master criminal, long wanted by the law, whose body has just been fished out of the Bosphorus. Fascinated by the story, Latimer decides to retrace Dimitrios' steps across Europe to gather material for a new book.
