Till We Meet Again ** (1936, Herbert Marshall, Gertrude Michael, Lionel Atwill) – Classic Movie Review 11,457

Gertrude Michael (June 1, 1911 – December 31, 1964).

Director Robert Florey’s 1936 American Paramount Pictures film Till We Meet Again [Forgotten Faces] stars Herbert Marshall, Gertrude Michael and Lionel Atwill.

The tragedy of war separates lovers – British thespian Alan Barclay (Marshall) and Austrian stage star theatre player Elsa Duranyi (Michael) – who meet again in Monte Carlo as spies on different sides in World War One. The couple had planned to marry but she disappeared, and he has joined the British intelligence service, taking a dead man’s identity, and she is also spying for her country.

A good premise gets wobbly exposition in this old-style production, but Marshall, Atwill as Ludwig the German spy boss, Victor Milner’s stylish black and white cinematography and the film’s gripping finish are all assets. This incredibly plotted, entirely unbelievable but sufficiently stylish, tense and entertaining romantic drama is taken from Alfred Davis’s play The Last Curtain.

The cast are: Herbert Marshall as Alan Barclay, Gertrude Michael as Elsa Duranyi, Lionel Atwill as Ludwig, Rod La Rocque as Carl Schrottle, Guy Bates Post as Captain Minton, Vallejo Gantner as Vogel, Torben Meyer as Kraus, Julia Faye as Nurse, Egon Brecher as Schultz, Frank Reicher as Colonel Von Diegel, Spencer Charters, Colin Tapley, and Colin Kenny.

Gertrude Michael (June 1, 1911 – December 31, 1964) debuted in Wayward (1932) and had a 30-year film career, and is best remembered for Murder at the Vanities (1934) and I’m No Angel (1933).

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