Secrets of the French Police (1932)

Directed by

A. Edward Sutherland

Genre

crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

58 min

Rated

NR

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The Paris police track a dangerous criminal mastermind who uses hypnotism to control women. A detective goes undercover to stop a plot involving a kidnapped orphan heiress.

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What happens

Secrets of the French Police is a 1932 American Pre-Code crime "B" film produced by RKO Radio Pictures, mixing elements of a police procedural film and sensationalist gothic fiction. Adapted from a serial story by H. Ashton Wolfe published in The American Weekly magazine, the screenplay was co-written by Samuel Ornitz, who also drew from his own unpublished novel, The Last Empress. Directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Gwili Andre, Gregory Ratoff, Frank Morgan, and John Warburton, the movie used some of the sets from RKO's The Most Dangerous Game (1932). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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