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The Great Impersonation is a 1935 Universal Pictures American drama film directed by Alan Crosland and starring Edmund Lowe, Valerie Hobson and Wera Engels. It was adapted from the 1920 novel The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim. The film bears some aesthetic similarities to the Universal horror films of the 1930s. Two other film versions of the story were produced with the same title in 1921 and 1942.




Plot


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.
When von Ragostein returns to London, assuming the identity of Dominey, he encounters the German aristocrat Stephanie Elderstrom, who is certain that she recognizes him as her former lover. Although von Ragostein's associates attempt to pay her to remain silent, she remains convinced that something is amiss. When von Ragostein reaches Donimey Hall, Dominey's wife is certain that it is Dominey. Gradually, doubts begin to emerge about the true identity of the man who has come home.




Cast


Edmund Lowe as Sir Everard Dominey/Baron Leopold von Ragostein
Valerie Hobson as Eleanor Dominey
Wera Engels as Princess Stephanie Elderstrom
Murray Kinnell as Seaman
Henry Mollison as Eddie Pelham
Esther Dale as Mrs. Unthank
Brandon Hurst as Middleton
Ivan F. Simpson as Doctor Harrison
Spring Byington as Duchess Caroline
Lumsden Hare as Duke Henry
Charles Waldron as Sir Ivan Brunn
Leonard Mudie as Mangan
Claude King as Sir Gerald Hume
Frank Reicher as Doctor Trenk
Harry Allen as Perkins
Lowden Adams as Waiter
Frank Benson as English Farmer
Robert Bolder as Villager
Willy Castello as Duval
Edward Cooper as Butler
David Dunbar as English Farmer
Dwight Frye as Roger Unthank
Nan Grey as Middleton's Daughter
Virginia Hammond as Lady Hume
Henry Kolker as Doctor Schmidt
Priscilla Lawson as Maid
Adolph Milar as German
Thomas R. Mills as Bartender
Pat O'Hara as Chauffeur
John Powers as Policeman
Tom Ricketts as Villager
Violet Seaton as Nurse
Leonid Snegoff as Wolff
Larry Steers as Army Officer
Frank Terry as Villager
Douglas Wood as Nobleman
Harry Worth as Hugo




References






Bibliography


Weaver, Tom & Brunas, Michael & Brunas, John. Universal Horrors: The Studio's Classic Films, 1931-1946. McFarland & Company, 2007.




External links


The Great Impersonation at IMDb

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