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The Masquerader

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

4.8 / 10

80 minutes

1933-09-03

English

US

Actors :

Ronald Colman, Elissa Landi, Juliette Compton, Halliwell Hobbes, David Torrence, Claude King, Helen Jerome Eddy, Creighton Hale, Eric Wilton, Olaf Hytten

Description

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.

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

6/13/2022, 6:01:29 PM

I'm a fan of Ronald Colman so was prepared to set aside the rather preposterous nature of the plot and enjoy his "Jekyll and Hyde" style performance as British parliamentarian "Sir John Chilcote". The man is a bit of a boor - constantly drunk, on drugs - a selfish oaf really. Luckily he has a loyal butler in "Brock" (Halliwell Hobbes) and a doppelgänger - his identical cousin ("Loder") - to take h...