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The Masquerader

The Masquerader

5,0 /10 (8 Votes)
1933 EN 80 min

Overview

A drug-addicted member of Parliament needs to take time off and secretly pull his life together, so he gets his lookalike cousin to agree to temporarily assume his identity.

Release date

03/09/1933

Votes

8

Popularity

0.6

Who was making love to her? Was it her husband? Or was it the masquerader he hired to double for him?

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

80 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2022-06-13

⭐ 6

I'm a fan of Ronald Colman so was prepared to set aside the rather preposterous nature of the plot and enjoy his "Jekyll and Hyde" style performance as British parliamentarian "Sir John Chilcote". The man is a bit of a boor - constantly drunk, on drugs - a selfish oaf really. Luckily he has a loyal butler in "Brock" (Halliwell Hobbes) and a doppelgänger - his identical cousin ("Loder") - to take his place when the public arena calls for it. Sadly, the plot now descends into melodrama as his wife "Eve" (Elissa Landi) and his erstwhile mistress "Diana" (Juliette Compton) both continue to vie for…

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