starring Sidney Greenstreet Peter Lorre , Zachary Scott
Historian A. J. P. Taylor chose a taut thriller as his kind of movie. On a morning in 1938, a body is washed ashore on a beach in Istanbul and identified as Dimitrios Makropoulos , a notorious criminal. What kind of man rises from Greek peasant to become one of the most wanted men in Europe? Cornelius Leyden , detective-story writer, is determined to find out.
Screenplay by FRANK GRUBER
Based on the novel by ERIC AMBLER Produced by HENRY BLANKE Directed by JEAN NEGULESCO
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