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The Lady of Scuderi

1955 • 1h39m Drama, Crime

Popularity

1

Several men have been murdered lately, mostly rich lovers on their way to meet their mistresses with gifts of fine jewelry. To fight this scourge, King Louis XIV decides to create a special court named "La chambre ardente", designed to find and punish the perpetrators of such heinous crimes. An unexpected person, Mademoiselle de Scudéry, the famous poetess, will find herself entangled in the web of a criminal intrigue linked with the jewel murders, along with a a goldsmith, his daughter and her fiancé...

Details

Director

Eugen York

Screenplay

Alexander Stenbock-Fermor

Joachim Barckhausen

Cast

Henny Porten

Willy A. Kleinau

Anne Vernon

Release date

7/28/1955

Status

Released

Origin country

XG

SE