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British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops.British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops.British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops.
Cedric Hardwicke
- Julian Wilde
- (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)
Annette Warren
- Blonde Nightclub Singer
- (singing voice)
John Alban
- Concertgoer
- (uncredited)
Jimmy Aubrey
- Nelson
- (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict
- Concertgoer
- (uncredited)
Wilson Benge
- Police Criminologist
- (uncredited)
Paul Bradley
- Concertgoer
- (uncredited)
Colin Campbell
- Wilberforce
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe title was changed to "Personal Column" midway through the original U.S. theatrical release because staff at the Production Code Administration thought the word "lured" sounded too much like "lurid". Director Douglas Sirk felt the title change confused potential audiences and led to the film's box-office failure.
- GoofsSandra, a taxi dancer, is enlisted by Scotland Yard to help catch the killer. Within a short period of time, she is appointed to be a detective and she is issued a gun. This all happens without an interview or any training. At Scotland Yard, firearms are only issued to senior officers, and most certainly not to a recruited civilian such as Sandra.
- Quotes
Sandra Carpenter: What is it tonight? A sweepstakes for zombies? I hope you two will be very happy.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits - a flashlight pans along the side of a building, and the credits are written on the side of the wall.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Vampira Returns: Lured 1947 (1956)
Featured review
Director Douglas Sirk, later best-known for sappy Hollywood melodramas, makes this early Lucille Ball vehicle about a killer that writes poetry to the police about the victim he is going to kill. Ball plays a dance hall girl that loses a friend and decides to help by joining the Scotland Yard force. She begins to answer personal ads by men looking for attractive young women. Along the way she comes in contact with a slaving-like operation and a bizarre eccentric fashion designer played with incredible gusto by Boris Karloff. Karloff has roughly 5 minutes of screen time, but boy does he know how to use it. This is a very enjoyable film. If you are looking for a lot of action - look somewhere else. What you get here is a lot of talk and character studies. The cast is one of the most complete I have seen in some time. George Sanders, Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Coburn, Robert Coote, Alan Napier, George Zucco and Alan Mowbray round out this incredibly talented cast. Zucco really stands out as a plain-clothes policeman. Ball is beautiful, and she does a very credible job in the lead. Sometimes I forget that she was a gorgeous woman with a lot of talent other than making you laugh. But that was certainly her greatest gift. Lured is a good, old-fashioned mystery yarn. The killer is painfully obvious about halfway through, but the actors go through the motions with obvious relish. Unfortunately the DVD release I had by KINO had nothing on it all all in terms of extras...didn't even separate chapters from main feature!
- BaronBl00d
- Dec 23, 2004
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Personal Column
- Filming locations
- Piccadilly Circus, Piccadilly, London, England, UK(opening establishing shots - archive footage)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $700,000
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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