“Her obsession with gambling led her to discover a sinister pact that destroyed her life.”
An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit.
Thorold Dickinson
Anatole de Grunwald
Rodney Ackland
Arthur Boys
Otto Heller
Georges Auric
Anton Walbrook
Capt. Herman Suvorin
Edith Evans
The Old Countess Ranevskaya
Yvonne Mitchell
Lizavetta Ivanova
Ronald Howard
Andrei
Mary Jerrold
Old Varvarushka
Anthony Dawson
Fyodor
Miles Malleson
Tchybukin
Michael Medwin
Hovaisky
Athene Seyler
Princess Ivashin
Ivor Barnard
Bookseller
Aubrey Mallalieu
Fedya
Maroussia Dimitrevitch
Gypsy Singer
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John Chard
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...
CinemaSerf
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 arist...
Original Trailer
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Introduction by Martin Scorsese
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