Peter Lorre
Janos 'Johnny' Szabo
Evelyn Keyes
Helen Williams
Don Beddoe
Lt. James 'Jim' O'Hara
George E. Stone
Dinky
John Tyrrell
Watts
Cy Schindell
Benson
Stanley Brown
Harry
James Seay
Jeff Jeffries
Warren Ashe
Johnson, Reporter
Charles C. Wilson
Chief O'Brien
George McKay
Terry Finnegan
Ernie Adams
Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Sam Ash
Mike Cary - Pilot (uncredited)
Al Bridge
Flop House Manager (uncredited)
Mary Currier
Burn Treatment Nurse (uncredited)
John Dilson
Man at Dock Asking for a Light (uncredited)
Sarah Edwards
Mrs. Perkins (uncredited)
Eddie Foster
Street Passerby Lighting Cigarette (uncredited)
Joel Friedkin
Charlie Perkins (uncredited)Jack Gardner
Man Calling in Fire (uncredited)Chuck Hamilton
Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Al Hill
Man Cooking in his Room (uncredited)Walter Merrill
Joe (uncredited)
David Oliver
Ship's Steward (uncredited)
Ralph Peters
Hotel Cook (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
Detective at Cary's Office (uncredited)
Frank Reicher
Dr. Ronald Cheever (uncredited)
Claire Rochelle
Young Shocked Nurse (uncredited)
Lee Shumway
Police Officer 643 (uncredited)
Walter Soderling
Jonathan Harris - Watchmaker (uncredited)
Edwin Stanley
Dr. Alex Beckett (uncredited)
Harry Strang
Clerk Stimson (uncredited)
Ben Taggart
Burn Treatment Doctor (uncredited)
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Reviews
Peter Lorre is "Janos", an enthusiastic, honest, watch-maker who has arrived in New York from Europe hoping to make his way and bring his beloved "Marie" to join him. He alights on the kindly policeman "O'Hara" (Don Beddoe) who recommends lodgings for him and off he goes. Tragedy strikes though as one of his fellow residents is doing a bit of illicit cooking and "Janos" awakens, disfigured and una
It is a testament to Peter Lorre's versatile facial language that he could contort his face into a rictus of dementia and corruption in M, and 10 years later but with essentially the same features, smile a sweet smile of innocence and candor as the Hungarian immigrant Janos Szabo in The Face Behind the Mask. Janos, watchmaker and self-proclaimed “mechanical genius” arrives in New York in search
The face behind the mask, it's mutated, hideous, a horrible nightmare. Out of which I can never awake. The Face Behind The Mask is directed by Robert Florey and collectively written by Paul Jarrico, Arthur Levinson and Allen Vincent. It stars Peter Lorre, Evelyn Keyes, Don Beddoe and George E. Stone. Music is by Sidney Cutner and cinematography by Franz Planer. Hungarian immigrant Janos Szab