Crime And Punishment (1935, U.S.A.)

Based on the novel by Dostoevsky, this film noir adaptation stars Edward Arnold and one of cinema’s most compelling presences, Peter Lorre (M, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon).

Dostoievsky’s immortal novel of human passion becomes a powerful drama starring Edward Arnold (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) as Inspector Porfiry and Peter Lorre as Roderick Raskolnikov, an impoverished student struggling with the nature of good and evil.

Crippled by guilt and paranoia after committing a murder he thinks is just, Raskolnikov is torn between the detective investigating the murder and the woman he saved, who now wants to save his soul.