A 1933 pre-Code spy film, starring the great Marlene Dietrich as Marie/Agent X-27 and Victor McLaglen as Colonel Kranau, an arrogant Russian à la Lord Flashheart. Unbelievably, this is the first ever film with Dietrich I’ve seen. As per usual, the Spanish title, Fatalidad, has nothing to do with the original Dishonored but probably is the better choice: according to Wikipedia, the director objected to the English title saying that “the lady spy was not dishonored, but killed by firing squad”.
This film opened the cycle Cine canario: Cines Wood, Royal y Rosales by Asociación de Cine Vértigo dedicated to the historic movie theatres of Gran Canaria. Fatalidad happened to be the film shown at the inauguration of Cine Wood of Tafira Alta on 26 August 1933. Before the projection, Enrique Wood gave a short presentation on the history of the Wood Cinema.
The complete feature is available in Internet Archive.
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