oscaralbert Review of The Mysterious Lady

The Mysterious Lady (1928)

The Real Life Behind-the-Scenes "back story" . . .

[6/10 · 2 April 2019]

. . . to THE MYSTERIOUS LADY is more fascinating than the movie itself. For instance, its famed leading lady was a double-agent spy herself, forced to "retire" immediately following the infamous Axis of Evil attack upon the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. Secondly, the nefarious war plans "Tania" filches from "Karl" as they're En Route from Vienna to Berlin are for the actual "back door" invasion path into Russia's Stalingrad. Thirdly, at the time that THE MYSTERIOUS LADY came out, its Fifth Columnist movie studio was in the process of defecting to the Prussian Side, since the rest of America's corrupt Fat Cat One Per Centers already were in cahoots with the Germanic Socialist's Pachyderm Sister Party. The House of the Groaning Lion thought that it would be a "feather in its cap" if it could use this flick to ferret out Stalingrad's Achilles Heel. However, despite THE MYSTERIOUS LADY and many more similar Tania films, the Stalingrad Secret remained just that. Then valiant Warner Bros. counter-attacked the Quisling Studio with CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY. This helped stuff Tania into "early retirement. Fortunately for Freedom, Stalingrad became the straw that broke Der Fuhrer's back.