The Queen of Spades
Passionate... Exciting... Intriguing... He bartered his soul for the SECRET of the cards!
Directed by Thorold Dickinson
Produced by Dimitri De Grunwald Production, Associated British Picture Corporation
A Gothic supernatural thriller about obsession and damnation, where a man's pursuit of forbidden knowledge leads him into a pact with dark forces.
A czarist captain stops at nothing to learn the secrets of a countess rumored to have sold her soul to the devil in order to always win at cards.
Essence
Ensemble
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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