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Midweek Cinema: The Mask of Dimitrios

on BBC Two England

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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Contributors

Unknown:
Sidney Greenstreet
Unknown:
Peter Lorre
Unknown:
Zachary Scott
Unknown:
Historian A. J. P. Taylor
Unknown:
Dimitrios Makropoulos
Unknown:
Cornelius Leyden
Unknown:
Frank Gruber
Novel By:
Eric Ambler
Produced By:
Henry Blanke
Directed By:
Jean Negulesco
Mr Peters:
Sidney Greenstreet
Dimitrios:
Zachary Scott
Irana:
Faye Emerson
Leyden:
Peter Lorre
,Grodek:
Victor Francen
Bulic:
Steven Geray
'Mme Chevez:
Florence Bates
Werner:
Georges Metaxa

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