starring Sydney Greenstreet Peter Lorre , Zachary Scott
On a winter morning in 1938, a body is washed ashore on a beach in Istanbul and identified as Dimitrios Makropoulos, a notorious criminal sought by the police of several countries. Cornelius Ley den, detective-story writer, sets out to piece together the jigsaw of Dimitrios's infamous career.
Screenplay by FRANK GRUBER
Based on the novel by ERIC AMBLER Produced by HENRY BLANKE Directed by JEAN NEGULESCO
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