The Great Impersonation (1935)

Directors

Alan Crosland

Cast

Brandon Hurst, Charles Waldron, Claude King, Edmund Lowe, Esther Dale, Frank Reicher, Ivan Simpson, Leonard Mudie, Lumsden Hare, Murray Kinnell, Spring Byington, Valerie Hobson, Wera Engels

The story

Before World War I, Sir Everard Dominey, a drunken upper-class Englishman, encounters an old acquaintance, the sinister German arms dealer Baron Leopold von Ragostein, in Africa. The two men are identical, and von Ragostein plans to kill his doppelgänger and take his place in British high society, where he will be able to further his arms business and spy on Britain for the Germans. He arranges the murder with his associates.

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