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Lured |  | Director: Douglas Sirk
Actors: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke
Studio: Kino Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 55565
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 102 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: KICD01642D
ISBN: 6305848769
UPC: 738329016425
EAN: 9786305848769
ASIN: 6305848769
Theatrical Release Date: September 5, 1947
Release Date: May 23, 2000
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Lucille Ball is in fine pre-TV form--still more the glamorous redhead than the slapstick comedienne--in Lured, Douglas Sirk's elegantly handled low-budget whodunit. Ball plays an American nightclub dancer in London, recruited by the police as a decoy for a serial killer--a maniac who finds his victims through the newspaper personal ads. The guilty party isn't difficult to guess, but the script by Leo Rosten is more literate than most such endeavors, and it's fun to watch our out-of-place heroine brazen it out in the London fog. George Sanders is the most cultivated of her suitors, and there's a weird sequence featuring Boris Karloff as a dress designer with crackpot designs on Lucy. Maybe best of all, the film has a crowd of good character actors: Charles Coburn (as a Scotland Yard inspector who becomes protective of his amateur agent), Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Mowbray, Joseph Calleia, and especially George Zucco, a frequent movie villain in a sympathetic role as an avuncular cop. Sirk brings his Germanic precision to the details, and cameraman William Daniels (Greta Garbo's favorite) no doubt had a hand in making Ball look good. Lured was subsequently re-titled Personal Column, much to Sirk's annoyance. --Robert Horton
Product Description
A serial killer terrorizes london trapping his prey through personal ads in the newspapers and taunting the police with gruesome poems. Scotland yard is brought in to solve the case. Studio: Kino International Release Date: 05/23/2000 Starring: Lucille Ball George Sanders Run time: 103 minutes Director: Douglas Sirk
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 Wow great story and acting!!! October 17, 2009
Stanley G. Landis (Chicago area)
I just got done watching this on Dish Network and lamented that I hadn't recorded this movie. I thought for sure I'd be out of luck but here it is on Amazon. Thank you. Buy this dvd! Lucille Ball is a knockout as well as great acting all around by the other actors. I never knew Ms. Ball could act so well. I became more and more interested as the story advanced. If you like mysteries this is one to watch. I will share this movie with my wife as she will appreciate it. The plot criss-crosses as the explanation to why beautiful young unattached women are disappearing. Just when you think Lucille's character is safe danger arises. WELL DONE LOW BUDGET MOVIE. George Sanders was a darn good actor too. Buy it and Enjoy!!
 Sound Could Be Better September 26, 2009
Stanley Cooper (jupiter, florida United States)
LURED Is a very Good Murder Mystery With A Pretty Good Cast//
However If Any Movie Needed Closed Caption(Subtitles) This Movie Needed It//
The Music Background Loud, But The Sound When The Actors Are Speaking Is Very Very LOW/Some Of The Actors I Could Not Understand What They Were Saying/And Since
I Have A Brand New 65" Sharp TV The Sound On All Of My Other DVDs Are Fine//
In Fact I Have To Turn The Sound Down On Most Of Them//The People Who Produced LURED and Scandel In Paris Which Has The Same Problems Should Hire Better Help
And They Should Add CLOSED CAPTION//I Hope That 2 George Sanders Movies That I
Have Been Waiting For On DVD PRIVATE AFFAIRS OF BEL AMI and DEATH OF A SCOUNDRAL
I Hope That When These 2 Movies Come Out On DVD That They Do A Better Job On
Restoring Them And I Hope That They Add Closed Caption
Stanley Cooper Jupiter Florida
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Douglas Sirk directing Lucille Ball in a noir thriller? Yes! June 30, 2009
Robert P. Beveridge (Cleveland, OH)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Lured (Douglas Sirk, 1947)
Lucille Ball in a thriller? Believe it! Not only that, but co-starring Boris Karloff and directed by Douglas Sirk, the King of the Weepies? Everything about this (including the overseas title, The Poet-Killer) says "six-cheese", and oh, my does it ever deliver.
Ball plays Sandra Carpenter, an American dancer working in London at the same time as a serial killer who meets his victims through the personal ads. (The overseas title comes from the killer's habit of sending bits of verse to the police as clues.) When one of Carpenter's friends disappears, the police approach her to work undercover, as bait. (Karloff plays an insane artists who is, at the outset, one of the prime suspects.) All well and good, save Carpenter's budding romance with dashing dance fan Robert Fleming (George Sanders, soon to win an Oscar for his work in All About Eve). So, of course, we have the double-life thing going on.
What really struck me about this picture, which actually has nothing much to do with it, is how differently Sirk approached his color features. Color plays such an important part in movies like Imitation of Life and All that Heaven Allows that it's difficult to imagine Sirk working in the black and white medium. And many of the expressionist touches that makes Sirk's color films so fun are absent, it's true, but that just means Sirk plays it straight here, treating this as your basic thriller. That's what it is, though beefed up by a Leo Rosten script that plays to Ball's comedic talents and an obvious surfeit of acting chops among the cast, which also includes such luminaries as Cedric Hardwicke and Alan Mowbray. It's good old-fashioned noir, and is quite enjoyable as such. Recommended. *** ½
They had voices then.... May 23, 2009
L. E. Cantrell (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is an entertaining film from 1947. It was originally released through United Artists but it has the look of a quintessential product from the Universal lot.
Visually, about half the film has the appearance of film noir, full of dandy shadows and wet-looking streets (every frame shot on a sound stage, of course.) The plot of "Lured," however, is not noirish but a confection of plucky girl detective, woman in peril and outright romance. With Lucille Ball as the star, you can count on both competent dramatics and a nice comic edge--one far more refined than you might expect if you know Ball only from her Lucy Ricardo persona.
"Lured" was an independent production, but certainly not one from poverty row. It is more than a B-picture, with its elaborate crowd scenes and often sumptuous-looking sets, but less than an A-picture as defined by MGM or Paramount. Call it an A-.
Where the acting chops of the cast is concerned, though, this is very much an A-picture. Think of it, in addition to the sui generis Ball, we are presented with George Sanders, Cedric Hardwick, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff (admittedly in a short cameo that probably took no more than one or two days to shoot), George Zucco, Alan Mowbray and Joseph Calleia. With the possible exception of Calleia, just think of the sheer resonance! Actors had voices then, not the flattened sounds and comparative squeeks that we accept today.
This particular print is not bad, a little spotty, but pretty good as far as the visuals are concerned. The soundtrack is a mess, though, forcing the viewer to make numerous adjustments in volume throughout the length of the film. When you acquire this DVD, you get "Lured," and that's all you get; there are no commentaries, trailers or extras of any sort. And that's a pity, because I, for one, we be happy to know more about the circumstances of this film.
This is not a great picture and there are some fairly obvious faults, among them an excess of red herrings and diversions, a softening of Ball's character into what seems now to be a little too PG-acceptable, and the almost painfully obvious identity of the guy whodunit. Nevertheless, "Lured" is an enjoyable piece of entertainment worth four solid stars.
LEC/Am/5-09
 Fun Piece of Film History! May 17, 2009
James "Scotman" April (Bakersfield, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Lured
Back in the late 1940s, before becoming America's favorite comedienne, Lucille Ball was a movie star, as can be seen in the film Lured.
I wanted to see this film because of Lucille and because Karloff appears in it. Lucy plays Sandra Carpenter, a hired girl in Taxi Dancing. I never heard of taxi dancing. Apparently at this time girls could be hired in dance halls to dance with military and other guys who did not have a date but just wanted to dance. Interesting.
The movie takes place in London and has our American taxi dancer get involved in a murder mystery. The crime drama was a bit disappointing. They built up the story well, but the killer was easy to spot half-way through the film. I think this was done purposely as the director gave hints throughout.
The cops hire Sandra as their spy when Sandra's friend is one of the girls who disappears. She uncovers a diamond smuggling ring through her efforts but the killer has yet to be found. All suspicion falls on her boyfriend who actually is being set up.
Now, the Karloff scene. Totally unnecessary. Seems the director shoehorned him in to help sell the picture.
Sandra and other policewomen are answering personal ads and following them up as the killer uses this same method to lure in pretty women (thus the title).
Boris meets her, brings her to his apartment where he wants her to try on dresses and parade before an empty hall with a mannequin and a bulldog in attendance. Karloff rolls his eyes dramatically, the dog growls menacingly and Sandra freaks out!
It's a cute sequence just to see the future comedienne's style and timing and Karloff's leering, menacing insanity, but totally unnecessary for the plot. Oh well.
Not an Oscar winner, but an interesting bit of film history.
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