LURED

Details

• Release Year: 1947
• Genre: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Before he revolutionized the women's film with such gleefully melodramatic works as Written On The Wind and Magnificent Obsession, director Douglas Sirk made a series of glossy thrillers flavored with European settings (shortly after his emigration to the U.S. from Germany). ; ; Like the films for which he would become famous, Lured revels in the glamour and romance that Hollywood had honed to perfection, and plays every scene, every coy glance, every deadly encounter, to the melodramatic hilt. ; ; In Lured, a serial killer terrorizes London, trapping his prey through personal ads in the newspaper and taunting the police with gruesome poems. A Scotland Yard detective (Charles Coburn) enlists the aid of a feisty American redhead (a truly captivating Lucille Ball) to draw the murderer into the dragnet, and leads her across the paths of a variety of peculiar subjects, including a demented clothing designer (Boris Karloff) and an international playboy (George Sanders), all of whom seem to have designs on the Yard's delectable decoy.
• Cast: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Joseph Calleia, Alan Mowbray, George Zucco, Robert Coote, Alan Napier, Tanis Chandler, Jimmy Aubrey, Lynn Baggett, Brooks Benedict, Wilson Benge, Colin Campbell, Jack Chefe, Ann Codee, Charles Coleman, James Conaty, Sayre Dearing, Cyril Delevanti, Herbert Evans, Charles Ferguson, Alex Frazer, Gerald Hamer, Sam Harris, Isabel La Mal, Ethan Laidlaw, Mike Lally, Ethelreda Leopold, Carl M. Leviness, Wilbur Mack, Frank McClure, Harold Miller, Eddie Parks, Jeffrey Sayre, Wyndham Standing, Dorothy Vaughan, Eric Wilton, Florence Wix, Douglas Sirk, Jacques Companéez, Simon Gantillon
• Director: Douglas Sirk
• Runtime: 1:43
• Company: Kino Video
• Media Format: Movie