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Personal Column (1939)

Personal Column poster
Original title
Pièges
Directed by
Robert Siodmak
Genre
drama film, crime film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 39m
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 14 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A cabaret singer becomes entangled in a series of mysterious disappearances in Paris. She works with a police inspector to find the person responsible.

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What happens

Personal Column (French: Pièges) is a 1939 French thriller film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Renoir, Marie Déa and Erich von Stroheim. It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Maurice Colasson and Georges Wakhévitch. Lured, an American re-make, directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Lucille Ball, was released in 1947. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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