8:45 p.m.	The Face Behind the Mask Robert Florey (U.S., 1941)

Peter Lorre has never exploited his sensitive face to more heartbreaking ends than in this tragic noir about a recently arrived immigrant watchmaker who turns to a life of crime after severe facial burns leave him unemployed and unloved, alone in the world with only his nocturnal friend Dinky to keep him company. When a blind girl—yes, MELODRAMA!—falls for him, he tries to sneak back out of the criminal underworld and into a redeeming love nest. The script has fresh twists galore, and no false moves, in its remarkable sixty-nine minutes.

—Guy Maddin (originally published in Film Comment)

• Written by Allen Vincent, Paul Jarrico, from a story by Arthur Levinson. Photographed by Franz Planer. With Peter Lorre, Evelyn Keyes, Don Beddoe, George E. Stone. (69 mins, B&W, 35mm, From Sony Pictures)