The Great Impostor gdr in an age of cynicism

in an age of cynicism and despair

Rarely has the spirit of an award-winning play transferred to the screen so effortlessly

Sherwood's 1935 Broadway success about survival of the fittest

"one of the most effective paranoid suspense movies since The Fugitive" (Chicago Tribune)

Matt Millen

The Great Impostor gdr in an age of cynicismTony Curtis stars in the incredible but true story of the world's greatest big time masquerader, Ferdinand Waldo Demara, Jr. in The Great Impostor. First shown as a school teacher placed under arrest by state troopers, the story recounts how the untrained, uneducated yet brilliant young man assumes the identity of a college professor, Trappist monk, prison warden and surgeon in the Canadian Navy. The unbelievable hide and seek story mixes suspense