The Great Impersonation
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1935 · 1h 8m · Approved Drama, Romance
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The Great Impersonation
Overview
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy.
Director and cast
- Edmund Lowe as Sir Everard Dominey / Baron Leopold von Ragostein
- Valerie Hobson as Eleanor Dominey
- Wera Engels as Princess Stephanie Elderstrom
- Murray Kinnell as Seaman
- Henry Mollison as Eddie Pelham
- Esther Dale as Mrs. Unthank
- Brandon Hurst as Middleton
- Ivan F. Simpson as Dr. Harrison
- Spring Byington as Duchess Caroline
- Lumsden Hare as Duke Henry
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