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Rating: 6.5 stars

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TCM England dancer undercover

All movies seen on 01/23/2023

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Lured (1947)

Directed by Douglas Sirk

Film Noir | Crime

Overview

Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she’s approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help.

Rated NR | Length 102 minutes

Actors

Lucille Ball | George Sanders | Charles Coburn | Cedric Hardwicke | George Zucco | Boris Karloff | Ann Codee | Alan Mowbray | Joseph Calleia | Alan Napier | Robert Coote | Tanis Chandler | Jimmy Aubrey | Jack Chefe | Charles Coleman | Alex Frazer | Gerald Hamer | Eddie Parks | Dorothy Vaughan | Stuart Hall | Herbert Evans | Sam Harris | Isabel La Mal | Marjorie Hoshelle | Charles Ferguson | Ethan Laidlaw | Mike Lally | Ethelreda Leopold | Annette Warren | Mary Jane French | Shep Houghton | Sol Murgi | Wilson Benge | Jack Deery | John Rice | Brooks Benedict | Carl M. Leviness | James Conaty | Robert Haines | Wilbur Mack | Herschel Graham | Rudy Germane | Frank McLure | Jeffrey Sayre | Sayre Dearing | Harold Miller | Cyril Delevanti | Wyndham Standing | Eric Wilton | Florence Wix | Colin Campbell | Marion Gray | Joe Gilbert

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Another excellent intro by Eddie Muller for Noir Alley. Solid film by Sirk but Lucille Ball still seems a little out of place here. Of course I dig George Sanders bc he was The Falcon.

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