Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one question one's allegiance..
If you're looking for a tight, high-stakes thriller, you should probably look elsewhere. The Gay Diplomat is one of those movies that exists in a very specific, weird pocket of early sound cinema where nobody is quite sure how to handle a plot without turning it into a parlor room comedy. If you love old-fashioned char...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Richard Boleslawski
Robert N. Bradbury
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"If you're looking for a tight, high-stakes thriller, you should probably look elsewhere. The Gay Diplomat is one of those movies that exists in a very specific, weird pocket of early sound cinema where nobody is quite sure how to handle a plot without turning it into a parlor room comedy. If you love old-fashioned charm and don't mind a story that forgets its own stakes for ten minutes at a time, you might have a good time. If you need logic or, you know, actual suspense? Maybe skip this one. T..."
Alfred Jackson, Benn W. Levy, Doris Anderson
United States
1931 · IMDb 4.8
