6.0
“HER KISSES WERE DEATH TRAPS!”
Lancer Spy (1937)
October 8, 19371h 18mEN
5.7
7 votes
Overview
An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check him out but falls in love with him.
Director
Gregory RatoffTop Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
German
Budget
N/A
Revenue
N/A
Production Companies
20th Century Fox
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User Reviews
CinemaSerf
6.0George Sanders is quite good in this tale of wartime espionage. He is the aristocratic "von Rohback" who returns to take up his acclaimed station in German society after a period of incarceration in Britain during the war. Or, is he? Well we know, but the Germans don't - and so they assign their super spy detector "Dolores" (Dolores del Rio) to use all of her wiles. Can he resist her charms and also stay one step ahead of the suspicious, ferret-like "Maj. Gruning" (Peter Lorre)? Can she resist his debonaire charms? The plot does proceed along some fairly well established lines, but this is rea…
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