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The Queen of Spades

Passionate... Exciting... Intriguing... He bartered his soul for the SECRET of the cards!

6.5(62)19491h 35m2

A czarist captain stops at nothing to learn the secrets of a countess rumored to have sold her soul to the devil in order to always win at cards.

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Released
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Language
EN
  • gambling
  • supernatural
  • black and white
  • devil
  • card playing

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United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR30 Jun 1949
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical16 Mar 1949
  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalU3 Mar 1950
    • PhysicalDVD31 May 2021

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The Queen of Spades was released on 16 March 1949.

Audience reviews

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    John Chard

    11/2/2013

    10/10

    The Strange Secrets of the Count de Saint Germain. The Queen of Spades is directed by Thorold Dickinson and adapted to screenplay by Rodney Ackland and Arthur Boys from the story written by Alexander Pushkin. It stars Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell and Ronald Howard. Music is scored by Georges Auric and cinematography by Otto Heller. A Tale of Old St. Petersbvrg. "In 1806 the craze for gambling…

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    CinemaSerf

    1/1/2023

    7/10

    This certainly has the feel of a short story to it. It takes it's time getting there, but the denouement is surprisingly effective. It all centres on the increasingly obsessive captain of engineers "Herman" (Anton Walbrook) who spends most of his cold and snowy St. Petersburg evenings with his aristocratic friends as they play faro. He never joins in, but that is because he has learned that the grandmother of one of …

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