Stamboul Quest (1934)
By the time 1934 rolled around, Myrna Loy had been cast in The Thin Man. Audiences had seen and fallen in love with her in the roll of the supportive and silly wife Nora Charles; her career change was in the making. Gone were her early years of femme fatales, loose women, and filming nude scenes. You’ll have to watch the previous year’s The Barbarian again if you don’t like her as the proverbial supportive wife. Unless. . .you can find a copy of Stamboul Quest. Based on a true story, she plays a character very similar to Mata Hari!
It starts off in a convent, and a very tired, slightly deranged Myrna is being taken care of by some kind nuns. She’s on a delirious rant, but why? Cue the flashback of the story. Myrna is a cool, confident, calculating German spy during WWI. Lionel Atwell is her boss, and when he orders her to seduce C. Henry Gordon and learn all his secrets, she thinks it will be a routine job. By chance, she meets a very young George Brent (without his mustache), an American on vacation. He doesn’t know what she is, and she just might find it fun to seduce a man when she’s not on the clock. . .
I enjoyed this movie far more than I thought I would. Spy movies aren’t usually my genre of choice, but the twists and turns of this one were very exciting. Myrna gave a great performance, and it was very interesting to see her balance a fake romance, a real romance, being a fake spy, and being a real spy. If you thought Casablanca was as good as it got for wartime romances with state secrets flying about, check this one out instead.
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It starts off in a convent, and a very tired, slightly deranged Myrna is being taken care of by some kind nuns. She’s on a delirious rant, but why? Cue the flashback of the story. Myrna is a cool, confident, calculating German spy during WWI. Lionel Atwell is her boss, and when he orders her to seduce C. Henry Gordon and learn all his secrets, she thinks it will be a routine job. By chance, she meets a very young George Brent (without his mustache), an American on vacation. He doesn’t know what she is, and she just might find it fun to seduce a man when she’s not on the clock. . .
I enjoyed this movie far more than I thought I would. Spy movies aren’t usually my genre of choice, but the twists and turns of this one were very exciting. Myrna gave a great performance, and it was very interesting to see her balance a fake romance, a real romance, being a fake spy, and being a real spy. If you thought Casablanca was as good as it got for wartime romances with state secrets flying about, check this one out instead.
Want to watch it? Click here to see it on ok.ru and thanks "The Projection Room" for posting!
More Myrna Loy movies here!