Secrets of the French Police

Secrets of the French Police
Secrets of the French Police
Directed by	A. Edward Sutherland
Written by	Robert Tasker; Samuel Ornitz; Robert Benchley
Based on	Secrets of French Police Inspectors by H. Ashton Wolfe (story series)
Produced by	David O. Selznick
Starring	Gwili Andre ; Gregory Ratoff ; Frank Morgan ; John Warburton
Cinematography	Alfred Gilks
Edited by	Arthur Roberts
Music by	Max Steiner
Production; company	RKO Radio Pictures
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	December 2, 1932;
Running time	58 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Secrets of the French Police is a 1932 American Pre-Code crime film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Gwili Andre, Gregory Ratoff, and Frank Morgan.

The film was made as a B film by RKO Radio Pictures, using some of the sets from RKO's The Most Dangerous Game (1932). The film is based partly on Samuel Ornitz's own unpublished novel The Last Empress.^[1]

Plot

In Paris, a French thief is employed by the Sûreté to investigate a sinister Russian émigré who may have the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia at his house.

Bernard F. Dick, Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten (University Press of Kentucky, 1988)

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