Lured

Sandra Carpenter, a dancer in London, is shaken when a friend goes missing after answering a newspaper personal ad. A police investigator, Harley Temple, tells her he believes a serial killer has been using such ads to choose victims, and he asks her to act as bait to draw the killer out. Sandra agrees, and the inquiry widens to take in a nightclub owner, a fashion figure and several other men whose interest in her may hide a more dangerous motive.

Douglas Sirk directed the film, which sits between A Scandal in Paris and Shockproof in his filmography, from a screenplay by Leo Rosten. Lucille Ball plays Sandra, with George Sanders, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke and Joseph Calleia among the large credited cast of fifty-three. The film runs 102 minutes.

Released in August 1947, it has an IMDb rating of 7 out of 10 from around 5,700 votes, a notably higher figure than its TMDB rating of 6.3 from 95 votes. A critics' rating of 6.9 out of 10 from seven reviews places it close to the audience score on IMDb.