“Lancer Spy” Compelling Wartime Spy Drama

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 63, 16 March 1938, Page 11

“Lancer Spy” Compelling Wartime Spy Drama

EX-SECRET AGENT KEEPS STORY REAL (State: Screening Soon.) Acclaimed as the most suspenseful spy story ever told because of its vivid reality, Twentieth Century-Fox’s ‘ ’Lancer Spy,” featuring Dolores Del Rio, George Sanders and Peter Lorre, owes much of its authentic and convincing atmosphere to Lieutenant Hans von Morhart, named technical adviser by Darryl F. Zanuck, producer. Lieutenant von Morhart was assigned to the general staff of the German Army during the Great War and supervised at various periods from 1916 to 1918 the operations of hundreds of espionage agents. He has served as co-scenarist and technical adviser on many of the outstanding Hollywood reconstructions of the Great War.

Directed by Gregory Ratoff, in his behind-the-camera debut, “Lancer

Spy” was written by Philip Dunne, based on the novel by r Marthe McKenna. Virginia Field, Sig Rumann, Joseph Schildkraut, Maurice Moscovicb, Lionel At will and Luther Adler are in - ’ ided in the cast.