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Lured (1947)

NR 08/28/1947 (US) Mystery, Crime, Thriller 1h 42m

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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.

Douglas Sirk

Director
Leo Rosten

Screenplay
Jacques Companéez

Story
Simon Gantillon

Story
Ernest Neuville

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Lucille Ball

Sandra Carpenter
George Sanders

Robert Fleming
Charles Coburn

Inspector Harley Temple
Cedric Hardwicke

Julian Wilde
George Zucco

Officer H.R. Barrett
Boris Karloff

Charles van Druten
Ann Codee

Matilda
Alan Mowbray

Lyle Maxwell
Joseph Calleia

Nicholas Moryani
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A review by John Chard

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Written by John Chard on January 20, 2019

Poet Killer Believed To Be At Bay!

Lured (AKA: Personal Column) is directed by Douglas Sirk and collectively written by Leo Rosten, Jacques Companéez, Simon Gantillon and Ernst Neubach. It stars Lucille Ball, George Sanders, Charles Coburn, Cedric Hardwicke, Joseph Calleia and Boris Karloff. Music is by Michel Michelet and cinematography by William H. Daniels.

A serial killer in London is murdering young women whom he meets through the personal columns section of the newspaper. Taunting the police with cryptic poems, the killer is proving most illusive, so much so that when a friend of... read the rest.

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