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Second Bureau is a British film of genre Romance with Arthur Wontner
Second Bureau (1936)
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Add to a movie listSecond Bureau is a 1936 British spy romance film directed by Victor Hanbury and starring Marta Labarr, Charles Oliver and Arthur Wontner. It was made at Shepperton Studios and based on a novel Second Bureau by Charles Robert-Dumas. It was a remake of a 1935 French film of the same name.
The film's title refers to the French military intelligence outfit Deuxième Bureau.
Synopsis
A French spy, Captain Paul Benoit, manages to steal some German secrets. The Germans send Erna Fielder, an agent of their own, after him, but the two spies end up falling in love.Actors
Arthur Wontner
(Col. Gueraud)
Meinhart Maur
(Gen. von Raugwitz)
Fred Groves
(Sgt. Colleret)
Bruno Barnabe
(Commissaire of Police)
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