The Great Impersonation (1935)

7.5/10 68 min Drama Romance

Overview

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.

Cast

Edmund Lowe

Sir Everard Dominey / Baron Leopold von Ragostein

Valerie Hobson

Eleanor Dominey

Wera Engels

Princess Stephanie Elderstrom

Murray Kinnell

Seaman

Henry Mollison

Eddie Pelham

Esther Dale

Mrs. Unthank

Brandon Hurst

Middleton

Ivan F. Simpson

Dr. Harrison

Spring Byington

Duchess Caroline

Lumsden Hare

Duke Henry

Leonard Mudie

Mangan

Claude King

Sir Gerald Hume

Frank Reicher

Dr. Trenk

Harry Allen

Perkins

Nan Grey

Middleton's Daughter (uncredited)

Willy Castello

Duval (uncredited)

Priscilla Lawson

Maid (uncredited)

Virginia Hammond

Lady Hume (uncredited)

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