A good cast is the highlight of the 1937 film, Lancer Spy, starring George Sanders, Delores Del Rio, Peter Lorre, Virginia Field, Sid Rumann, and Joseph Schildkraut.
Sanders plays an English soldier in World War I who bears such a strong resemblance to a captured German prisoner that he is sent in to replace him and learn valuable information. When the German officers become suspicious, they send a spy (Del Rio) in to find out if he is in fact the German officer.
20th Century Fox used this film to promote George Sanders as a star; however, he had been in previous films for the studio, including Lloyds of London. He is very good, as he always was. Del Rio is impossibly beautiful. Schildkraut gives his role an amusing characterization. For me he can never go wrong. Peter Lorre has a small role.
Not much of a story, since in these films, stealing information is always right there in the file cabinet. However, this is an entertaining film.
Sanders plays an English soldier in World War I who bears such a strong resemblance to a captured German prisoner that he is sent in to replace him and learn valuable information. When the German officers become suspicious, they send a spy (Del Rio) in to find out if he is in fact the German officer.
20th Century Fox used this film to promote George Sanders as a star; however, he had been in previous films for the studio, including Lloyds of London. He is very good, as he always was. Del Rio is impossibly beautiful. Schildkraut gives his role an amusing characterization. For me he can never go wrong. Peter Lorre has a small role.
Not much of a story, since in these films, stealing information is always right there in the file cabinet. However, this is an entertaining film.