Crime and Punishment
Columbia Pictures (1935)
Drama
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IMDB   7.0
1 hr 28 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Peter Lorre Roderick Raskolnikov
Edward Arnold Insp. Porfiry
Marian Marsh Sonya
Tala Birell Antonya Raskolnikov
Elisabeth Risdon Mrs. Raskolnikov
Robert Allen Dmitri
Douglass Dumbrille Grilov
Gene Lockhart Lushin
Charles Waldron University president
Thurston Hall Editor
Johnny Arthur Clerk
Mrs. Patrick Campbell Pawnbroker
Edith Arnold Nastasya
George Blagoi Clerk
Nana Bryant Madame
Director
Josef von Sternberg
Producer B.P. Schulberg
Writer Joseph Anthony
S.K. Lauren

Roderick Raskolnikov, a brilliant criminology student and writer, becomes embittered by poverty and his inability to support his family. When he sees a desperate prostitute, Sonya, degraded by a vicious pawnbroker, Raskolnikov, a proponent of the idea that some people are imbued with such intelligence that the law cannot be applied to them as to other people, decides to rid the world of the pawnbroker and thus save his family and Sonya as well from the fate poverty forces on them. When Porphiry, the police detective investigating the murder, encounters Raskolnikov, he finds a man nearly crippled by the guilt and paranoia his deed has burdened him with. But Raskolnikov clings with as much coldness and calculation as he can muster to his guiding idea, that some crimes ought not to be punished.
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