Crime and Punishment
Cast & Crew
Lawrence B. Mcgill
Derwent Hall Caine
Cherrie Coleman
Lydia Knott
Carl Gerard
Sidney Bracey
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Synopsis
University student Rodion Raskolnikoff is forced to flee Russia for publishing a radical treatise advocating lawlessness for the good of society. He arrives on the shores of America, still preaching the same doctrine. Touched by the poverty on the East Side of New York, Rodion kills a pawnbroker who oppresses the people in his neighborhood, robs his safe, and uses the money for charitable purposes, managing to keep the guilt from himself. When the crime is fastened upon Porphyus, an innocent man, however, Rodion is caught in the struggle between conscience and his creed, until Sonia, a poor young Russian girl, instills in him a sense of the wrong of his act by converting him to a belief in God. Conscience stricken, Rodion rejects his credo and acknowledges his guilt.
Director
Lawrence B. Mcgill
Cast
Derwent Hall Caine
Cherrie Coleman
Lydia Knott
Carl Gerard
Sidney Bracey
Marguerite Courtot
Robert Cummings
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Dostoevsky's novel was first published in Russky Vestnik Magazine in 1866. Among the many other film adaptations of Dostoevsky's novel are: the 1923 German film Raskolnikow, directed by Robert Wiene; the 1935 French film Crime et Chatiment, starring Harry Baur and directed by Pierre Chenal; the 1935 Columbia production, starring Peter Lorre and directed by Josef von Sternberg; the 1956 French film Crime et Chatiment, starring Jean Gabin and Robert Hossein and directed by Georges Lampin; the 1959 Allied Artists release Crime and Punishment USA, starring George Hamilton and directed by Denis Sanders; and the 1969 Russian production, directed by Lev Kulijanov.
