Tonight's Movie: The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934) - A Kino Lorber Blu-ray Review

THE MAN WHO RECLAIMED HIS HEAD (1934) is an odd yet interesting drama out on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics.This film was released a few weeks ago, at the high of the classic film festival season in Southern California, but I was glad to now catch up with it.The movie begins strangely as somewhat hysterical Paul Verin (Claude Rains) staggers through the streets of Paris carrying his little girl Linette (Juanita Quigley, billed as Baby Jane) and a valise.It's World War I and Germans are bombing the streets, but Paul finally arrives at the home of his old school chum Fernand de Marnay (Henry O'Neill), a distinguished lawyer. Once Paul somewhat gains his mental bearings -- and shows the horrified Fernand the shocking contents of the valise -- he recounts his story in flashback.Paul is a pacificist writer with a loving younger wife, Adele (Joan Bennett). In order to give Adele a higher standard of living, Paul takes a job writing anti-war editorials for newspaper publisher Henry…