Lured
Date: 1947
Director: Douglas Sirk
Production Company: Hunt Stromberg Productions
Stars: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff
Location(s): California (Studio), London
Region(s): London H-L, N. America
Storyline:
Police search for a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal columns.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
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- Capture 1
- 04 Sep 2023
The film opens with a scene setting shot of Piccadilly Circus in London W1.
An up to date shot of the Circus with a lot of scaffolding. SJ
- Capture 2
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On board a passing bus, Lucy Barnard reads a personal column advertisement from carnation wearing John before alighting to meet her doom... This looks like the north-east view up Shaftesbury Avenue with the dome of The Gielgud Theater outlined in the sky. (SJ)
- Capture 3
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Lucy’s friend Sandra Carpenter meets with Detective Gordon and Inspector Harley Temple at Scotland Yard and agrees to work undercover. Looking east along Derby Gate towards Victoria Embankment in SW1.
- Capture 4
- 11 Jan 2023
At 4 o’clock, dancer Sandra Carpenter (Lucille Ball) arrives on Rotten Row to meet with a Bird Lover who “Wants long walks with pretty, unmarried young lady”. The back projection is of Smith Square in SW1 with the corner of Dean Trench Street to the left and the towers at the west end of Westminster Abbey to the top right along Gayfere Street. The footage is taken from 1940’s ‘Foreign Correspondent’.
The late afternoon sun has caught the Abbey awkwardly but it's very there! SJ
- Capture 5
- 'Now' required
Sandra walks into a park where she gives information to Inspector Barrett (George Zucco). A set at General Service Studios on North Las Palmas Avenue in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.