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The Great Impersonation is a american film of genre Drama directed by Alan Crosland released in USA on 8 december 1935 with Edmund Lowe
The Great Impersonation (1935)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 8 december 1935
Length 1h8
Directed by Alan Crosland
OriginUSA
Themes Films set in Africa
Rating64%
The Great Impersonation is a 1935 American drama film directed by Alan Crosland and starring Edmund Lowe, Valerie Hobson and Wera Engels. It was adapted from the novel The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim. It was made by Universal Pictures with some aesthetic similarities to the Universal Horror films of the 1930s. Two other film versions of the story were made with the same title in 1921 and 1942 respectively.
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Before the First World War, Sir Everard Dominey, a drunken upper-class Englishman, encounters an old acquaintance the sinister German arms dealer Baron Leopold von Ragostein in Africa. The two men are identical, and von Ragostein plans to kill his doppelganger and take his place in British high society where he will be able to further his arms business and spy on Britain for the German Empire. He arranges the murder with his various associates.Actors
Edmund Lowe
(Sir Everard Dominey / Baron Leopold von Ragostein)
Valerie Hobson
(Eleanor Dominey)
Wera Engels
(Princess Stephanie Elderstrom)
Murray Kinnell
(Seaman)
Henry Mollison
(Eddie Pelham)
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