Gaslight (Thorold Dickinson, 1940)

[Matt]

Apart from this film, Queen of Spades, La Ronde, Lola Montes, and the Archers films, what other essential Anton Walbrook performances should I seek out?

Relatedly, I see there’s a recent (rather long, rather expensive) biography available, but I think I’m more interested in watching the work rather than reading about it (my career in academia in a nutshell), or at least watching more of it than I’ve seen before I read about it.

[swo17]

Arthur Robison's 1935 adaptation of Der Student von Prag, both for Walbrook's performance and because the film is great

[Saturnome]

Not a film I think about because of Anton Walbrook's performance (though he's good) but because as a whole it's one of my favorite discoveries of the last few years and I'm getting a chance to mention it, Willi Forst's 1934 Maskerade.

[therewillbeblus]

His performance is not nearly one of the standouts in the film, but anyone still sleeping on Preminger’s Saint Joan should remedy that ASAP

[Aunt Peg]

Not a film I think about because of Anton Walbrook's performance (though he's good) but because as a whole it's one of my favorite discoveries of the last few years and I'm getting a chance to mention it, Willi Forst's 1934 Maskerade.

Great film and perhaps Walbrook's greatest performance and still very sadly difficult to see. This is high on my Blu Ray/restoration wish-list.

[Tommaso]

+1 for "Maskerade", of course. Completely on a par with Ophüls, and I mean: 1950s Ophüls.

And if you want to see a very fine Austrian screwball comedy, check out "Allotria" (1936, also directed by Willi Forst).