LURED no stars

Very strange; Douglas Sirk's "Lured" is a serial killer thriller, somewhat lacking in thrills but full of little eccentricities of plot that, at least, marks it out as different. It's set in a foggy London where New York showgirl Lucille Ball finds herself working for the police trying to track down a killer who meets his victims by putting ads in the personal column. Ball is surprisingly good and the first-rate cast also includes George Sanders, Boris Karloff, Charles Coburn, (as a very unlikely policeman), George Zucco, (as another very unlikely policeman), Cedric Hardwicke, Joseph Calleia and Alan Mowbray. Unfortunately, they are mostly just coasting along given the lackluster script. Almost everyone, except Coburn and Zucco, are suspects and there are more red herrings on display than in Billingsgate Fish Market. It's not very good, (in fact, it's pretty terrible), and you should be able to pick out the killer quite early on but it's certainly weird.