The Great Impersonation (1935)
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Genre : Drama, Romance
Runtime : 1H 8M
Director : Alan Crosland
Writer : Frank Wead, Eve Greene
Synopsis
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy.
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