The Masquerader

Sep 3, 1933

1h 20m

★ 4.8

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

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Samuel Goldwyn Productions

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Cast

Sir John Chilcote / John Loder

Ronald Colman

Eve Chilcote

Elissa Landi

Lady Diana Joyce

Juliette Compton

Brock

Halliwell Hobbes

Fraser

David Torrence

Lakely

Claude King

Robbins

Helen Jerome Eddy

Bobby Blessington

Creighton Hale

Alston

Eric Wilton

Doctor

Olaf Hytten

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