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Release Date: 1947 Cast: Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Alan Mowbray
Categories: Movies, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Psychological thriller, Black-and-white, Mystery, Suspense, Crime Thriller, Film noir Lured (also known as Personal Column in the UK) (1947) is the title of a film noir released by United Artists, directed by Douglas Sirk, and starring Lucille Ball, George Sanders, Boris Karloff, Charles Coburn, and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
Sandra Carpenter (Lucille Ball) is an American who came to London to perform in a show but now is working as a taxi dancer. She is upset to find out that a friend, a dancer named Lucy Barnard (Tanis Chandler), is missing and believed to be the latest victim of the notorious "Poet Killer," who lures victims with ads in the newspaper's personal columns and... MORE
Lured (also known as Personal Column in the UK) (1947) is the title of a film noir released by United Artists, directed by Douglas Sirk, and starring Lucille Ball, George Sanders, Boris Karloff, Charles Coburn, and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
Sandra Carpenter (Lucille Ball) is an American who came to London to perform in a show but now is working as a taxi dancer. She is upset to find out that a friend, a dancer named Lucy Barnard (Tanis Chandler), is missing and believed to be the latest victim of the notorious "Poet Killer," who lures victims with ads in the newspaper's personal columns and sends poems to taunt the police.
Scotland Yard Inspector Harley Temple (Charles Coburn) asks if Sandra would be willing to work undercover to help find her missing friend and the killer. He sees first-hand how observant she is and gives her a temporary police identification card and a gun. Sandra is asked to answer personal ads, with a Yard officer named H.R. Barrett (George Zucco) always nearby, just in case.
By coincidence she meets the dashing man-about-town nightclub owner Robert Fleming (George Sanders), who at first wished to hire her for his stage revue but now wants to pursue a romance. In LESS
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