What a cast! Lucille Ball, George Zucco, and appearances by Boris Karloff and Alan Napier. Bonus, it’s a fantastic film!
It lingers a little too long at the end maybe, but otherwise a must watch for classic film fans.
Lured
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Rating
4.0 (1)
Release Date
8/28/1947Runtime
102 minsOverview
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.
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EnglishBudget
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How It Feels
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A clever woman becomes bait in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a serial killer, spinning noir suspense from the mundane horror of trusting strangers through personal ads. The film finds dark menace in the banal, a love letter could be a death sentence.
Mood
TenseParanoidUnsettling
Themes
CrimeObsessionSurvival
Tone
Earnest
Pacing
Steady
Look
NaturalisticHigh-contrast
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Graphic violence
George Sanders
Robert Fleming
Lucille Ball
Sandra Carpenter
Charles Coburn
Harley Temple
Boris Karloff
Charles van Druten
Cedric Hardwicke
Julian Wilde
Joseph Calleia
Nicholas Moryani
Alan Mowbray
Lyle Maxwell
George Zucco
H.R. Barrett
Robert Coote
Detective Wilson
Alan Napier
Detective Gordon
Tanis Chandler
Lucy Barnard
Ann Codee
Matilda
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