The Man with Two Faces

1934
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1h 12m

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6.4/10

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Edward G. Robinson in The Man with Two Faces (1934)

A talented young actress seems to be under the spell of her unscrupulous, avaricious, and totally unprincipled husband.

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A talented young actress seems to be under the spell of her unscrupulous, avaricious, and totally unprincipled husband.A talented young actress seems to be under the spell of her unscrupulous, avaricious, and totally unprincipled husband.A talented young actress seems to be under the spell of her unscrupulous, avaricious, and totally unprincipled husband.

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Trivia
When Edward G. Robinson says, "Revenons a nos moutons," he is using a French catch-phrase that literally means "Let's get back to the sheep" and is used to mean "Let's get back to the point at hand." The phrase comes from the French play "La Farce de Maitre Pathelin," in which a legal case about sheep keeps getting sidetracked in comical ways, and the judge has to keep saying it.

Goofs
Damon says he played Rastignac in a performance of the play La Fille du Regiment. This is an opera, and there is no character of that name in it. Rastignac is a character in the novels of Balzac.

Quotes
Damon Welles: Well, a new groupie.
[32-years before it's first usage as noted by Merriam-Webster at http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/groupie on 2012-04-06 12:28 CT]

Connections
Referenced in Hope & Gloria: The Face with Two Men (1995)

Soundtracks
Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)
(1933) (uncredited)
Music by Harold Arlen
Lyrics by Ted Koehler
Sung by Mae Clarke

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6/10

A sterling performance

Edward G. Robinson turns in a pair of great performances as both an actor theatrical impresario and as a character he plays out in real life as a possible investor in his new show which stars his sister Mary Astor. Thus Robinson becomes The Man With Two Faces.

Things seem to be going well when Louis Calhern shows up. He was actually thought dead and had very few who mourned him. Calhern is a thorough going cad, in a few years his would have been a part that George Sanders would have relished. But he has a strange Svengali like influence over Astor and for her sake he's barely tolerated.

Robinson has had a scheme long in the making about Calhern. The problem is that Calhern is in need of money. That's where Robinson as the investor comes in.

Don't want to give too much away. The film is based on a George S. Kaufman-Alexander Woollcott play The Dark Tower. I thought it a strange product for Kaufman. None of the satirical wit is present or at least in this film version, it might have been drained antiseptic by the newly placed Code.

However Robinson is outstanding and his fans should The Man With Two Faces.