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Three Faces East (1930)

Three Faces East poster
Directed by
Roy Del Ruth
Genre
drama film, spy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 11m
Rating
5.4 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

During World War I, a British secret agent goes undercover in a German household. She must maintain her false identity while navigating threats and suspicion from those around her.

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What happens

Three Faces East is a 1930 American pre-Code spy drama film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Constance Bennett and Erich von Stroheim. Produced by Daryl Zanuck and released by Warner Bros. Pictures it is based on a 1918 Broadway play about World War I spies, Three Faces East, by Anthony Paul Kelly. It was filmed as a silent in 1926. A later remake in 1940 starred Boris Karloff and Margaret Lindsay was titled British Intelligence. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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