Lured
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• Black & White
• DVD-Video
• NTSC
In Theaters : 05 September, 1947
DVD Release : 23 May, 2000 |
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Neat Victorian crime tale
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This is the last of 3 stylish period movies directed by Douglas Sirk and starring George Sanders -the others ,for the record,being Summer Storm from 1944 and Scandal in Paris ,dated 1946.
It is based on a 1939m French movie ,directed by Robert Siodmak,entitled "Pieges" with the setting shifted from Paris to London in the Victorian era .
8 personable and attractive young women have vanished from London after answering a newspapaper advertisement .Sandra Carpenter (Lucille Ball) an American showgirl in London is persuaded by Inspector Temple of Scotland Yard (Charles Coburn)to act as bait -to answer the advert and lure the killer into the trap .
The suspects are plentiful and they are very well played by an accomplished cast of actors-including George Sanders ,with whom Sandra falls in love ,George Zucco ,Boris Karloff, Sir Cedric Hardwicke,Joseph Calleia and Alan Mowbray
Ball is slightly miscast but still gives a strong performance and the movie is a neat slice of period melodrama ,complete with fog enshrouded streets ,rattling hansom cabs and flickering gaslight -all the requisite accotrements of the genre
Recommended as a good whodeunnit mixed with the thriller -but be careful and do not be misled by the cover which features Karloff .It is NOT a horror movie and he does not get a great deal of screen time |
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