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Spy of Napoleon is a British film of genre Drama directed by Maurice Elvey with Richard Barthelmess

Spy of Napoleon (1936)

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Length 1h41
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Historical
Rating66% 3.3298753.3298753.3298753.3298753.329875

Spy for Napoleon is a 1936 British historical drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Richard Barthelmess, Dolly Haas, Frank Vosper, Henry Oscar and James Carew. It is based on the 1934 novel A Spy of Napoleon by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, best known for writing The Scarlet Pimpernel.

An illegitimate daughter of Louis Napoleon is taken on as an agent by Napoleon III, ruler of France, who wishes her to spy on the aristocracy who he suspects of wanting to overthrow him.

Actors

Richard Barthelmess

(Gerard de Lanoy)Dolly Haas

(Eloise)Francis L. Sullivan

(Chief of Police)Frank Vosper

(Napoleon III)Joyce Bland

(The Empress)
And :
C. Denier Warren
Henry Oscar
George Merritt
James Carew
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