The Devil Pays Off
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The Devil Pays Off is a 1941 crime film
directed by John H. Auer. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording (Charles Lootens).
Crime film
Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.- Plays and films...
directed by John H. Auer. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Sound Recording (Charles Lootens).
Cast
- J. Edward BrombergJ. Edward BrombergJoseph Edward Bromberg was a Hungarian-born American character actor in motion picture and stage productions dating mostly from the 1930s and 1940s....
as Arnold DeBrock - Osa MassenOsa Massen-Background and early career:Born Aase Madsen, she began her career as a newspaper photographer before becoming an actress. Massen notably appeared as Melvyn Douglas' unfaithful wife dealing with blackmailer Joan Crawford in A Woman's Face ....
as Valeria DeBrock - William Wright as Christopher Waring
- Margaret Tallichet as Joan Millard
- Abner BibermanAbner BibermanAbner Biberman , was an American actor, director, and screenwriter...
as Carlos Castillo-Martinez - Martin KosleckMartin KosleckMartin Kosleck was a German film actor. Like many other German actors, he fled when the Nazis came to power. Inspired by his deep hatred of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, Kosleck would make a career in Hollywood playing villainous Nazis in films. While in the United States, he would appear in more...
as Grebb, Henchman - Charles D. Brown as Capt. Jonathan Hunt
- Ivan Miller as Capt. Brigham
- Roland VarnoRoland VarnoRoland Varno was a character actor from Utrecht, Netherlands. He appeared in dozens of films in the 1930s and 1940s including the Return of the Vampire, My Name is Juila Ross, Gunga Din, Three Faces West, Women in Bondage, Three's a Crowd, Flight to Nowhere and Scared to Death.Varno also appeared...
as Ship's Doctor