On Secret Service (1933)
Drama · Romance · War
Overview
Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinee idol Don Alvarado. The film takes place in Vienna, 1912. When an Austrian staff officer is implicated by association with a known Italian spy he goes on the run. Three years later - as the Great War gets into full swing - he returns and begs the Austrian Secret Service to allow him to clear his name from suspicion.
Cast
- Greta Nissen as Marchesa Marcella Galdi
- Karl Ludwig Diehl as Captain von Homberg
- Don Alvarado as Conte Valenti
- Lester Matthews as Coloneilo Romanelli
- Esme Percy as Bleuntzli - Reporter
- C.M. Hallard as Colonel von Waldmuller
- Austin Trevor as Captain Larco
- Cecil Ramage as Ermete Davila
- Wallace Geoffrey as B-18