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Second Bureau (1936)

Second Bureau poster
Directed by
Victor Hanbury
Genre
romance film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 15m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A British intelligence officer and a spy cross paths. Romance complicates their dangerous work.

romanticspy intriguebritish1930smoodymysteriousclassicunderstated

What happens

Second Bureau is a 1936 British spy romance film directed by Victor Hanbury and starring Marta Labarr, Charles Oliver and Arthur Wontner. It was made at Shepperton Studios and based on the 1934 novel Second Bureau by Charles Robert-Dumas. It was a remake of a 1935 French film of the same name. The film's title refers to the French military intelligence outfit Deuxième Bureau. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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