59%User score 59 percent
Lord of Illusions
1995 · Horror · Fantasy
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61 votes
Passionate... Exciting... Intriguing... He bartered his soul for the SECRET of the cards!
A czarist captain stops at nothing to learn the secrets of a countess rumored to have sold her soul to the devil in order to always win at cards.
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John Chard
November 2, 2013
The Strange Secrets of the Count de Saint Germain. The Queen of Spades is directed by Thorold Dickinson and adapted to screenplay by Rodney Ackland and Arthur Boys from the story written by Alexander Pushkin. It stars Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell and Ronald Howard. Music is scored by Georges Auric and cinematography by Otto Heller. A Tale of Old St. Petersbvrg. "In 1806 the craze for gambling had spre…
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CinemaSerf
January 1, 2023
This certainly has the feel of a short story to it. It takes it's time getting there, but the denouement is surprisingly effective. It all centres on the increasingly obsessive captain of engineers "Herman" (Anton Walbrook) who spends most of his cold and snowy St. Petersburg evenings with his aristocratic friends as they play faro. He never joins in, but that is because he has learned that the grandmother of one of…
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