Lured

Pros: Ball, Sanders, Sirk's not overdoing it on the drama here
Cons: story a little weak and predictable

Directed by Douglas Sirk after his flight from Germany, Lured really shows no signs of what he would become most renown for in Hollywood, his melodramatic films that seemed mostly geared for a female audience. While this film might not be ...

Pros: cast, Daniels's cinematography
Cons: soundstage-bound; genre-blurring is a con for some

The primary draw of the 1946 serial-killer detection melodrama is its plucky red-headed star, Lucille Ball, looking very glamorous, even at the start when she is a tax-hall dancer (men pay for dancing with the women), an American stranded in London when ...

Pros: Lucille Ball; rest of cast; nice touches of humor; cat and mouse
Cons: needed more editing; not as thrilling as it could've been

A poet-killer in 1974 London is playing cat and mouse with Scotland Yard, sending them an elegantly-styled poem before he strikes young, unmarried women. What can be done? There are no clues or suspects after seven women have been killed and the police ...

Pros: A terrific cast.
Cons: It should be at least half an hour shorter, and less predictable.

There is a joke in Lured (1947) that no one involved in making the movie could have known. The movie stars Lucille Ball and a bit of it foreshadows I Love Lucy. Her character in Lured has no sidekick and no husband, but she has a ...