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On Secret Service is a British film of genre Drama directed by Arthur B. Woods released in USA on 9 february 1936 with Karl Ludwig Diehl
On Secret Service (1933)
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Add to a movie listOn Secret Service is a 1933 British thriller film directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Greta Nissen, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Don Alvarado and Austin Trevor. It was produced by British International Pictures, and based on a novel by Robert Baberske.
Synopsis
In 1912, the Austrian secret service identifies Marcella Galdi, an Italian noblewoman who is visiting Vienna, as an Italian spy. To avoid diplomatic confusions, she is kidnapped while dancing with the Austrian General Staff officer Michael von Hombergk at a ball at the famous hotel Sacher in Vienna, and sent back to Italy. Shortly afterwards, a secret plan of an Austrian fortress appears in Hombergks office desk, and as he himself is unable to explain this, the secret service urges him to commit suicide, but instead he manages to escape from Vienna.Actors
Karl Ludwig Diehl
(Captain von Homberg)
Greta Nissen
(Marchesa Marcella Galdi)
Esmé Percy
(Bleuntzli - Reporter)
Don Alvarado
(Conte Valenti)
Lester Matthews
(Coloneilo Romanelli)
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