Lured

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Lured

1947

1h 42m

Mystery & Thriller

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Sandra Carpenter (Lucille Ball) is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple (Charles Coburn), a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help. But complications arise when Sandra becomes engaged to a nightclub owner.

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James Agee

TIME Magazine

02/27/2018

The picture is too busy with laughs to worry much about chills, but no one ought to complain about that.

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Sean Axmaker

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03/08/2024

This stylish Victorian melodrama/murder mystery is less a thriller than a witty cat-and-mouse game played with both the audience and the target.

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Austin Trunick

Under the Radar

02/28/2017

The juxtaposition between [humor] and the grimmer elements such as forensic examinations ... feels super, super weird, but the film remains compelling for plenty of other reasons that can smooth out the jarring switches.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

10/17/2016

3.5/4

[UPDATED 2025 REVIEW] The plot is wonderfully knotty, and Lucille Ball is appropriately spunky.

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

02/14/2010

A lustrous essay on the alluring trapdoors of the romantic image

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

03/05/2007

B-

A decent thriller about a hunt for a serial killer.

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Kalissa H

@kali_416 May 11

Quite a good mystery and story. Loved seeing Lucille Ball in a non-comedic role. Had some unsettling and creepy moments too.

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harwee h

03/23/2024

Typical 40s thriller.

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Alec B

@Alec97 03/04/2024

Ball is so delightfully dry and witty here (the screenplay is good but she's so natural it almost doesn't matter) and the police procedural plot is compelling.

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02/10/2024

Lucy Balls best role

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j f

@LiberteBurrows 01/02/2024

Number 504 for 2023 enough characters?

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Matthew R

10/04/2022

Great film noir! Lucille Ball can act!

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Synopsis

Sandra Carpenter (Lucille Ball) is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple (Charles Coburn), a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help. But complications arise when Sandra becomes engaged to a nightclub owner.

Director: Douglas Sirk
Producer: James Nasser
Screenwriter: Leo Rosten
Distributor: United Artists
Production Co: Hunt Stromberg Productions
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 5, 1947, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 4, 2016
Runtime: 1h 42m

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