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Director
  
Maurice Elvey

Producer
  
Julius Hagen

Duration
  

Country
  
United Kingdom

5.9/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, History

Cinematography
  
Curt Courant

Language
  
English

Writer
  
Emmuska Orczy
,
L. du Garde Peach

Release date
  
9 September 1936 (1936-09-09)

Cast
  
Richard Barthelmess
,
Dolly Haas
,
Frank Vosper
,
Francis L Sullivan

Similar movies
  
Related Maurice Elvey movies

Spy for Napoleon is a 1936 British historical drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Richard Barthelmess, Dolly Haas, Frank Vosper, Henry Oscar and James Carew. It is based on the 1934 novel A Spy of Napoleon by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, best known for writing The Scarlet Pimpernel.

An illegitimate daughter of Louis Napoleon is taken on as an agent by Napoleon III, ruler of France, who wishes her to spy on the aristocracy who he suspects of wanting to overthrow him.

Cast

  • Richard Barthelmess - Gerard de Lanoy
  • Dolly Haas - Eloise
  • Frank Vosper - Napoleon III
  • Francis L. Sullivan - Chief of Police
  • Joyce Bland - Empress Eugenie
  • C. Denier Warren - Benicolet
  • Henry Oscar - Hugo Blot
  • Marjorie Mars - Anna
  • Brian Buschell - Phillippe St. Paul
  • Lyn Harding - Bismarck
  • Wilfrid Caithness - Von Moltke
  • George Merritt - Prussian Consul
  • Stafford Hillard - Newspaper seller
  • James Carew - Gatling

    • References

    Spy of Napoleon Wikipedia
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    Spy of Napoleon IMDb


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