Conrad Veidt's Most chilling Performance ?
Conrad Veidt's Most chilling Performance ?
Even though he is a very sinister character in Casablanca, I think he is even more menancing in All Through the Night !
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He's pretty scary, and highly sexual, as the Grand Vizier lusting after June Duprez in The Thief of Baghdad.
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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.
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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.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.
All Through the Night is one of my favorite films, terrific casting all the way around.
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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!
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!
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Conrad was not exactly a sweetheart in A woman's face (1941)
"The Murri Affair" (1974)
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Are you sure that this wasn't just a practical joke?
"The Murri Affair" (1974)
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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.
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"The Murri Affair" (1974)
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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.
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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.
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The scene in the attic was splended ! That's when he really turned it on, the chill.jamesjazzguitar wrote: ↑January 15th, 2023, 11:31 amA 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 Murri Affair" (1974)
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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.
I feel sorry for the good twin being deported. A good person taking the place of an evil person is damned creepy.
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He plays a benevolent character in Above Suspicion (1943) and has a great tango scene (I think it was the tango).