
The Queen of Spades
Passionate... Exciting... Intriguing... He bartered his soul for the SECRET of the cards!
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Release Date
3/16/1949Runtime
95 minsOverview
A czarist captain stops at nothing to learn the secrets of a countess rumored to have sold her soul to the devil in order to always win at cards.
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A chilling descent into supernatural obsession where a man's hunger for wealth and certainty draws him into a Faustian bargain with darkness. The film wraps its moral reckoning in period atmosphere and spectral dread.
Mood
Dread-soakedParanoidMelancholic
Themes
ObsessionAmbitionMortalityCorruption
Look
Black and whiteFormalist

Anton Walbrook
Capt. Herman Suvorin

Edith Evans
The Old Countess Ranevskaya

Yvonne Mitchell
Lizavetta Ivanova

Ronald Howard
Andrei

Mary Jerrold
Old Varvarushka

Anthony Dawson
Fyodor

Miles Malleson
Tchybukin

Michael Medwin
Hovaisky

Athene Seyler
Princess Ivashin

Ivor Barnard
Bookseller

Aubrey Mallalieu
Fedya
Maroussia Dimitrevitch
Gypsy Singer
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