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Madame Spy (1934)

Madame Spy poster
Directed by
Karl Freund
Genre
spy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An American woman marries a German spy during World War I. She gets caught between her husband and a romantic rival from her past.

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What happens

Madame Spy is a 1934 American adventure film directed by Karl Freund and starring Fay Wray, Oscar Apfel, Edward Arnold and Nils Asther. The film was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is a remake of the 1932 film Under False Flag which was produced by Deutsche Universal, the German subsidiary of the studio, and was itself based on a novel of the same title by Max W. Kimmich. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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