Lured (1947)
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64% of users liked it
(913 ratings)
Lucille Ball is an American taxi-dancer living in London whose roommate has disappeared. The missing girl had left to answer a job offer in the "personal" column of the Times...just like several other women who've vanished without a trace. Scotland Yard detective George Zucco suggests… More Lucille Ball is an American taxi-dancer living in London whose roommate has disappeared. The missing girl had left to answer a job offer in the "personal" column of the Times...just like several other women who've vanished without a trace. Scotland Yard detective George Zucco suggests that Ball answer the personals herself in hopes trapping the killer. She crosses the paths of several eccentrics, including deranged artist Boris Karloff, who for a brief time is the prime suspect. The actual culprit, a sex murderer, is the least likely and most helpful of Ball's contacts -- a fact that she learns almost too late. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Douglas Sirk
- Written By
- Jacques Companeez, Simon Gantillon, Leo Rosten
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Classics
- In Theaters
- Aug 28, 1947 Wide
- Studio
- United Artists
Critic Reviews
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Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion
A lustrous essay on the alluring trapdoors of the romantic image
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A decent thriller about a hunt for a serial killer.
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Cast
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George Sanders
as Robert Fleming
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Lucille Ball
as Sandra Carpenter
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Charles Coburn
as Inspector Temple
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Alan Mowbray
as Maxwell
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Cedric Hardwicke
as Julian Wilde
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George Zucco
as Officer Barrett
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Joseph Calleia
as Dr. Moryani
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Tanis Chandler
as Lucy Barnard
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Boris Karloff
as Artist
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Jimmy Aubrey
as Nelson
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Robert Coote
as Officer Barret
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Sam Harris
as Old Man at Concert Asking for Whiskey
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Alan Napier
as Inspector Gordon
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Dorothy Vaughan
as Mrs. Miller