The Great Impersonation (1935)
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The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy.
- Date of release
- 1935-12-08
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 8m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Director
- Alan Crosland
Casting
- Edmund Lowe — Sir Everard Dominey / Baron Leopold von Ragostein
- Valerie Hobson — Eleanor Dominey
- Wera Engels — Princess Stephanie Elderstrom
- Murray Kinnell — Seaman
- Henry Mollison — Eddie Pelham
- Esther Dale — Mrs. Unthank
- Brandon Hurst — Middleton
- Ivan F. Simpson — Dr. Harrison
- Spring Byington — Duchess Caroline
- Lumsden Hare — Duke Henry
- Charles Waldron — Sir Ivan Brunn
- Leonard Mudie — Mangan
Interesting facts
The Great Impersonation is a 1935 Universal Pictures American drama film directed by Alan Crosland and starring Edmund Lowe, Valerie Hobson and Wera Engels. It was adapted from the 1920 novel The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim. The film bears some aesthetic similarities to the Universal horror films of the 1930s. Two other film versions of the story were produced with the same title in 1921 and 1942.
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