Lured Page #6

Synopsis: A serial killer in London is murdering young women he meets through the personal columns of newspapers. He announces each of his murders to the police by sending them a cryptic poem. After a dancer disappears, the police enlist an American friend of hers, Sandra Carpenter, to answer advertisements in the personal columns, and lure the killer.
Director(s): Douglas Sirk
Production: United Artists
 
IMDB:
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Year:
1947
102 min
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She'll be using the guest room until

Tuesday, before the reception. Would

...you take these parcels upstairs?

My engagement party dress is in this

one, be nice when you hung it up

I'll be careful, miss

We should toast to the bride

Don't you think?

But I'm not a bride yet and

I'm very superstitious

Here's to Sandra

Gentlemen, I thank you

You don't mind kissing your husband's

partner from time to time, do you?

That depends on how many business

partners you have

Julian, go ahead!

Do I have the lady's permission?

That's all it's required. Now Sandra

I want to show you the house

An introduction to my new job?

Besides, I want to kiss you too

Damn it!

- Excuse me sir?

The chief was right

Well, Gordons?

It's come sir. Another poem

The loveliest one reveals the tiger's

lair knowing not what estrange love...

...is locking in there. Wearing

simmering stars and silken cloth...

...of blue, the last's death with

who she'll have...

...her rendez-vous. L'm afraid

Gordons there's not much chance with

...this Bodelaire, either.

Wearing simmering stars...

It looks like you walked through

a shower of stars, doesn't it, miss?

That's how I feel. L'm having fun

with this cloud I'm travelling on

Mr. Fleming is a good man too, miss

Thank you miss Miller

Exquisite, beautiful. The stars of

the dress are only opposed to...

My eyes? Thank you Julian

Where is Robert?

He won't be long

Oh, he isn't ready yet?

Should we wait in his study? Not

everybody has this privileges

This is the one place he likes to

call his own

I guess this settles that old

question of who takes longer to dress

Robert's a very vain person my dear

and vanity takes time

Is that supposed to be news? Look at

all the encouragement he had

Robert my dear I anticipate loving

you for ever, your Margaret

That's where Margaret made her first

mistake. There it is another one

Don't take it down,

I wasn't complaining

You might if you read this one, I'm

sure Robert would hung me for...

...showing you

this special collection

I'll go to see why he's keeping you

Bad legs

Oh no!

Lucy!

Darling, people are arriving!

Is here anything wrong?

Robert!

Tell me something

That I love you? Yes.

Did you doubt it?

Did you know her?

This on the eve of my wedding

with a house full of guest coming

No, am I supposed to know her?

I don't know

We'll postponed that on our agenda

We won't talk about that now

Did I tell you how beautiful you look?

I want to show you off. Come in

Pardon sir but Mr. Harold Temple has

arrived. Should I take him to the...

Would you ask him to come in here

please, he's a friend of mine

I'm so glad you could come

My fiance, Mr. Fleming

May I offer my felicitations to

you both

I wonder if I could have a word with

Sandra? We'll join you in a minute

Yes, of course

Where did you get that gown?

This? In Loraine's

Who was with you?

Robert and the chofer

What are you driving at?

The loveliest one reveals the tiger's

lair knowing not what estrange love...

...is locking in there, wearing

simmering stars and...

It looks like I'm next, doesn't?

You're wrong, Robert didn't

send this

Is that what you hint?

I hinted nothing. I presented you a

fact, you're in danger. This poem...

What is it Sandra?

No!

What is it? Have you

discovered something?

Fleming's desk?

But he has hundreds of pictures like

this, they don't mean anything!

And the bracelet?

I'm sorry you two. Darling,

everyone is here

Mr. Fleming, I'd like to ask you a

question. Where did you get this?

I? That's not mine

It was in your desk

Please tell him why

What if I knew, you could probably

buy those by hundreds in any shop

This belonged to one of eight girls

who disappeared from London

Why should that concern me?

This is the girl who wore it

She was a friend of mine

We've been trying to trace her

We?

Please try to understand, I was

working with inspector Temple

Inspector

So that's what brought you to me?

You certainly took me in

What made you decide to put her on

my trail. Did I look dangerous?

Darling, it wasn't that way!

She was only on the line of duty

I congratulate you on your skill

of making love in the line of duty

How else could you have caught me

right handed in my own trap

Oh Robert that's cruel

That's complimentary, I admire you

You've the evidence, the pictures,

...the bracelet, you've everything

except the eight girls

Mr. Fleming, I'm afraid I'm going

to have to ask you to come with me

Robert just tell us where the

bracelet came from

All right. I took it from the body

of a girl that I murder. Believe it?

No, no Robert!

Look angel, the show is over,

stop acting

Come on I'm sure you have more

than this to say

What do you expect me to say, you

found some pictures on my desk so

you consider me to be an abductor

of girls, a maniac hiding the bodies

Is this your typewriter? The machine

with which the poems were typed

I said that before

Do you use paper of this kind,

watermark Victoria?

My secretary buys the paper, I don't

know one kind from the other

The night of February the 3rd Louis

Remington disappeared. Can you tell...

us where you were that night? It was

Monday night. The hotel dinner bill...

...that night was singed at 8,37 pm,

you left the hotel...

Do you pretend me to remember a

night almost a year ago?

You'll be surprised what a man can

remember when it's important

I don't remember where I was on

August the 10th, on July the 20th or...

September the 4th. L've been going

out every night for years.

Precisely and very clever too. A man

who's seen out publicly night after

night doesn't have to remember where

he was, he's already established a...

...carte blanche alibi

for any night of the year

And what about the photograph of

Lucy Barnard, found in your desk?

Same as the other 50. I don't know

this girls, I may have seen them,

talked or even hired them. You might

find more pictures on my mail today

There're pictures of Lucy Barnard

Louis Remington, Arlette Torlinton

...y Sandra Carpenter. Each of them

answered an add asking for 'young

girl wanted' A photograph in every

case was attached to the letter

That's not my meted of meeting girls

No? These pictures were found in the

files of your office

My office?

Yes Mr. Fleming. Your office

You met Miss Sandra at the concert

through an advertisement...

That's absurd. I made that up

Did you lie to her?

It seems Mr. Fleming that you're

capable of lying

- Why did you go to the concert

that particular night?

I told you I was bored

But you told us earlier that you did

not go to concerts

But that's a different kind of

boredom

Indeed you knew Sandra Carpenter

would be there

How could I possibly had known?

You advertised on the personal

column as the music lover.

She answered that add

Her answer was in your files

I happened to see her at the concert

she was waiting for someone...

I was sitting right behind her

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Leo Calvin Rosten (April 11, 1908 – February 19, 1997) was an American humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism, and Yiddish lexicography. He was also a political scientist interested especially in the relationship of politics and the media. more…

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