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Lured

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6.3(95)19471h 42m2

Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
  • london, england
  • undercover
  • poetry
  • scotland yard
  • fashion designer
  • serial killer
  • taxi dancer
  • personals column
  • white slave trade

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Douglas Sirk

Writers

Leo Rosten

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical (limited)NRNew York City, New York28 Aug 1947
    • Theatrical5 Sept 1947
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical3 Sept 1947
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatricale 121 Jan 1948
  • ItalyIT

    • Theatrical17 Dec 1948
  • PortugalPT

    • Theatricale 1218 Apr 1949

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Lured was released on 28 August 1947.

Audience reviews

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  • J

    John Chard

    1/20/2019

    6.5/10

    Poet Killer Believed To Be At Bay! Lured (AKA: Personal Column) is directed by Douglas Sirk and collectively written by Leo Rosten, Jacques Companéez, Simon Gantillon and Ernst Neubach. It stars Lucille Ball, George Sanders, Charles Coburn, Cedric Hardwicke, Joseph Calleia and Boris Karloff. Music is by Michel Michelet and cinematography by William H. Daniels. A serial killer in London is murdering young wome…

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    CinemaSerf

    3/28/2022

    7/10

    Lucille Ball looks really quite glamorous at times in this well cast mystery that is distinctly devoid of, well, actual crime.... She is drafted in by Scotland Yard to assist them in their investigation of eight girls who have gone missing over recent years; the latter being her friend. The one thing these mysteries may have in common is that each girl was written a poem before they went off the radar, and each may h…

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