Conrad Veidt's Most chilling Performance ?

[ken123]

Even though he is a very sinister character in Casablanca, I think he is even more menancing in All Through the Night !

[jdb1]

He's pretty scary, and highly sexual, as the Grand Vizier lusting after June Duprez in The Thief of Baghdad.

[ken123]

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.

[rudyfan]

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.

[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!

[laffite]

Conrad was not exactly a sweetheart in A woman's face (1941)

[Swithin]

Conrad was not exactly a sweetheart in A woman's face (1941)

He wasn't exactly a sweetheart in this role either:

[laffite]

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?

[Swithin]

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?

[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,

he made some unkingly concessions at the end, forgiving Monsieur Villon for have duped him, his Royal Majesty. Very unbecoming a King. You could say he was a nice guy, '

cause the movie ended right there.

[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.

[jamesjazzguitar]

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.

[laffite]

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.

[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.

[Swithin]

He plays a benevolent character in Above Suspicion (1943) and has a great tango scene (I think it was the tango).