Shortly after Hungarian immigrant Peter Lorre arrives, full of beans, to a new life in the US, he is badly burned in a hotel fire. The only one who will talk to him / look at him is a criminal and hence Lorre begins a life of crime, rising quickly to run a tough gang. Things change when he meets a blind girl and wants to start life anew, which his gang colleagues are not keen on, indeed they believe he has informed on them.
Enjoyable, noir B movie thriller, notable for another fine turn from Lorre - no-one does hysterical like him - as he shifts quickly from likeable nobody to ruthless criminal and back in under 90 minutes. The horror of his disfigured face is well handled, despite not seeing it, the mask make up pretty good and it notably leads to an imaginative and rather ghoulish climax.
Enjoyable, noir B movie thriller, notable for another fine turn from Lorre - no-one does hysterical like him - as he shifts quickly from likeable nobody to ruthless criminal and back in under 90 minutes. The horror of his disfigured face is well handled, despite not seeing it, the mask make up pretty good and it notably leads to an imaginative and rather ghoulish climax.