Watched: 04/25/2026
Format: Criterion
Viewing: First
Director: Timothy Carey
I am unclear on the release history of The World's Greatest Sinner (1962). I'm not even sure it ever did more than a screening or two in Los Angeles and then disappeared. I don't know how it hit streaming, winding up (til the end of the month) of the Criterion Channel.
Your mom has probably never heard of Timothy Carey. And maybe you haven't, but if you're the right kind of film nerd, you may have. Carey was a bit of a wild card hanging around the movie scene and getting cast as usually an oddball, and I saw him first in The Killing where he plays a gunman who shoots a horse and still botches the job (it's a phenomenal movie and I highly recommend it).
Well, I guess in the 1960's he got his hands on some money and wrote, directed and produced this movie. And, man, making true low-budget indie movies back in the day was not easy. You had to coast on vibes and ideas. And this has both in spades.
