Lured
Lured

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A serial killer in London is murdering young women he meets through the personal columns of newspapers. He announces each of his murders to the police by sending them a cryptic poem. After a dancer disappears, the police enlist an American friend of hers, Sandra Carpenter, to answer advertisements in the personal columns, and lure the killer.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Lured:

George Sanders
Lucille Ball
Charles Coburn
Boris Karloff
Cedric Hardwicke
Joseph Calleia

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A serial killer in London is murdering young women he meets through the personal columns of newspapers. He announces each of his murders to the police by sending them a cryptic poem. After a dancer disappears, the police enlist an American friend of hers, Sandra Carpenter, to answer advertisements in the personal columns, and lure the killer.

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TIME Magazine - 9/10 by James AgeeThe picture is too busy with laughs to worry much about chills, but no one ought to complain about that.
Under the Radar - 9/10 by Austin TrunickThe juxtaposition between [humor] and the grimmer elements such as forensic examinations ... feels super, super weird, but the film remains compelling for plenty of other reasons that can smooth out the jarring switches.
CinePassion - 7/10 by Fernando F. CroceA lustrous essay on the alluring trapdoors of the romantic image
User Review - 10/10 by Cali Fornia CWell-filmed, well-plotted mystery. Lucille Ball is a beautiful, straight-talking American dancer, contrasted with George Sanders' womanizing, smooth English nightclub entrepreneur. Black and white films have to be better than color films to hold the modern viewer's attention, and this detective story -- where the beautiful woman is the detective -- does. Fast and fun.
User Review - 8/10 by Lenard KAmerican woman serves as bait in order to help Scotland Yard catch a serial killer. Sirk movie starring Lucille Ball. A good example of how literate a lot of old Hollywood movies were, with a Baudelaire loving killer and a woman described as being as beautiful as a Gainsborough painting.
User Review - 8/10 by Jack GHard boiled melodrama, like Melonoir. It's something I'd be interested to see more from Sirk, though I'm not sure how many of these he did. Great to see Lucille Ball outside of her sitcom; apparently she was called for a time the 'Queen of the B's" for roles like this. Not very great, but very interesting movie all the same.
User Review - 8/10 by Daniel IIf you see "Lured" it will be one of the few chances to see Lucille Ball in a [very] dramatic role. Sandra (Ball) is a lonely American showgirl living in London just for fun. Her job is just fine, but when one of her friends goes missing, Scotland Yard suspects it was the work of a serial killer who has been placing ads in the paper for romance. The strange thing is, is that they have all been showgirls. They hire Sandra to catch the killer, but on the way she [of course] falls for a suave man (Sanders) who just might be the guy wanted. But will she be able to keep going with her work? "Lured" is a fun whodunit that I think anybody could be entertained by. This was one of Ball's few dramatic roles (and also her last) and it is really one of her best. Though this film was not a success in its day, most Lucy fans consider it to be one of her best films. "Lured" is not a typical film noir-- a woman going undercover for the cops is unheard of, and the topic of a serial killer on the loose was not very popular at the time. I can't even see why this was such a failure. Director Douglas Sirk always made soapers, and this is one of the times he takes a break from it. He keeps you at the edge of your seat until the last ten minutes, and for a huge portion of the movie you suspect somebody else as the killer. And along the way, I can't not say that you suspect a number of people, especially Boris Karloff as a psychotic dress designer. "Lured" is a very good movie that is really worth seeing.
User Review - 8/10 by Max MA terrifically engaging thriller. Lucille Ball stars as a quick-witted American Taxi-Dancer working in London, who is hired on by Scotland Yard to help track down a killer who targets young, single women. Director Douglas Sirk (who would go on to make such lush melodramas as Written on the Wind, All That Heaven Allows, and Imitation of Life) demonstrates his masterful skills at both atmosphere and blunt yet effective plot interjections within scenes (such as a woman being picked up by a mysterious stranger just as a newsboy crosses the frame wearing a sandwich board announcing there is a killer on the loose).
User Review - 8/10 by Brian RGeorge Sanders is a cad and a bounder - there can surely be no argument about that - but is he a murderer? The suspense of this film hinges on this very question. 'Lured' (aka 'Personal Column') is an enjoyable romp of a film which doesn't take itself too seriously. The Hollywood depiction of 1940s London and its acefaces is as splendidly phoney and rubbish as one could wish for. The acting couldn't be hammier if it was honey-roasted and coated in breadcrumbs. The brilliant Charles Coburn as Inspector Suchandsuch of the Yard gets to utter such priceless lines as "He has to destroy beauty instead of making love to it". David Niven's lodger Robert Coote does some good, low-key work as a detective. Most surprising is Lucille Ball (who I usually can't stand) who plays it pretty straight and acquits herself well.
User Review - 8/10 by David BStrange little 40s noir, not completely what I expected. Lucille Ball actually did have the makings of a very good dramatic actress. Some of the gender issues were examined in an honest, not too exploitative way. Karloff appears for all of five minutes to amuse us. Also always nice to see George Sanders being a nice fellow for once.

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