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Conrad Veidt's Most chilling Performance ?
Posted: November 28th, 2009, 6:13 pm
by ken123
Even though he is a very sinister character in Casablanca, I think he is even more menancing in All Through the Night !
Re: Conrad Veidt's Most chilling Performance ?
Posted: November 28th, 2009, 7:10 pm
by jdb1
He's pretty scary, and highly sexual, as the Grand Vizier lusting after June Duprez in The Thief of Baghdad.
Re: Conrad Veidt's Most chilling Performance ?
Posted: November 28th, 2009, 7:15 pm
by ken123
jdb1 wrote:He's pretty scary, and highly sexual, as the Grand Vizier lusting after June Duprez in The Thief of Baghdad.
I will have to watch Thief the next time it turns up on TCM. I have never seen it , to the best of my recollection.
Re: Conrad Veidt's Most chilling Performance ?
Posted: November 28th, 2009, 7:40 pm
by rudyfan
ken123 wrote:jdb1 wrote:He's pretty scary, and highly sexual, as the Grand Vizier lusting after June Duprez in The Thief of Baghdad.
I will have to watch Thief the next time it turns up on TCM. I have never seen it , to the best of my recollection.
It's a beautiful film, and I agree, Veidt is very menacing. I think he is, also, in A Woman's Face with Joan Crawford. I need to see him in Escape, which I've not seen.
All Through the Night is one of my favorite films, terrific casting all the way around.
Re: Conrad Veidt's Most chilling Performance ?
Posted: November 28th, 2009, 9:33 pm
by klondike
How about CV in a protagonist's role?
Check him out sometime as a heroic Danish sea captain battling Axis saboteurs during the London blackout, in Michael Powell's
Contraband.
It can be a tough one to track down, but pretty darn rewarding if you can turn it up!
Re: Conrad Veidt's Most chilling Performance ?
Posted: January 14th, 2023, 9:19 pm
by laffite
Conrad was not exactly a sweetheart in A woman's face (1941)
Re: Conrad Veidt's Most chilling Performance ?
Posted: January 14th, 2023, 9:33 pm
by Swithin
laffite wrote: ↑January 14th, 2023, 9:19 pm
Conrad was not exactly a sweetheart in
A woman's face (1941)
He wasn't exactly a sweetheart in this role either:
Re: Conrad Veidt's Most chilling Performance ?
Posted: January 14th, 2023, 9:56 pm
by laffite
Cuthbert wrote: ↑January 14th, 2023, 9:33 pm
laffite wrote: ↑January 14th, 2023, 9:19 pm
Conrad was not exactly a sweetheart in
A woman's face (1941)
He wasn't exactly a sweetheart in this role either:
Are you sure that this wasn't just a practical joke?
Re: Conrad Veidt's Most chilling Performance ?
Posted: January 14th, 2023, 10:37 pm
by Swithin
laffite wrote: ↑January 14th, 2023, 9:56 pm
Cuthbert wrote: ↑January 14th, 2023, 9:33 pm
laffite wrote: ↑January 14th, 2023, 9:19 pm
Conrad was not exactly a sweetheart in
A woman's face (1941)
He wasn't exactly a sweetheart in this role either:
Are you sure that this wasn't just a practical joke?
Re: Conrad Veidt's Most chilling Performance ?
Posted: January 14th, 2023, 11:05 pm
by laffite
He played the Louis XI in
The Beloved Rogue (1927), and was the usual tyrannical Royal Bastar d and chilling indeed (for awhile at least) but oh, oh, oh,
cause the movie ended right there.
Re: Conrad Veidt's Most chilling Performance ?
Posted: January 15th, 2023, 10:35 am
by sagebrush
One of my favorite Conrad Veidt performances is in a good guy role, as an angel in disguise in the 1935 British film THE PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK.
Re: Conrad Veidt's Most chilling Performance ?
Posted: January 15th, 2023, 11:31 am
by jamesjazzguitar
laffite wrote: ↑January 14th, 2023, 9:19 pm
Conrad was not exactly a sweetheart in
A woman's face (1941)
A Woman's Face would be my choice. Conrad is very controlled in this film but the menace is chilling and anyone that would kill a child is rotten to the core.
Re: Conrad Veidt's Most chilling Performance ?
Posted: January 15th, 2023, 11:33 am
by laffite
jamesjazzguitar wrote: ↑January 15th, 2023, 11:31 am
laffite wrote: ↑January 14th, 2023, 9:19 pm
Conrad was not exactly a sweetheart in
A woman's face (1941)
A Woman's Face would be my choice. Conrad is very controlled in this film but the menace is chilling and anyone that would kill a child is rotten to the core.
The scene in the attic was splended ! That's when he really turned it on, the chill.
Re: Conrad Veidt's Most chilling Performance ?
Posted: January 15th, 2023, 2:57 pm
by Allhallowsday
NAZI AGENT (1943)
I feel sorry for the good twin being deported. A good person taking the place of an evil person is damned creepy.
Re: Conrad Veidt's Most chilling Performance ?
Posted: January 15th, 2023, 3:36 pm
by Swithin
He plays a benevolent character in
Above Suspicion (1943) and has a great tango scene (I think it was the tango).