Kino Home Video, 1947, 103 minutes
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Imagine "Sex and the City" crossed with "Murder, She Said," set it in postwar London, and you've got this black-and-white Douglas Sirk thriller that's nothing like the lush Technicolor melodramas Sirk is famed for.
Lucille Ball cracks wise - and models a mean wardrobe - as glamorous American-in-London Sandra Carpenter, a dancer looking for her break on the English stage. One of her friends goes missing just as a serial killer's at large, writing cryptic letters about his conquests to the police. So Sandra agrees to do undercover detective work for Scotland Yard, posing as a maid to lure a murderer who targets attractive young women via the newspaper's personal ads.
To complicate matters, along the way our heroine is lured by - and falls in love with - an impresario (George Sanders) who's handsome, clever, and rich (in short, a Mr. Big type).
Ball's Sandra is every bit as contemporary as Carrie Bradshaw - and every bit as old-school romantic beneath her witty armor. Admirably, she holds her own alongside a scenery-chewing Boris Karloff AND an adorable Bulldog. In a later scene, with her employer's pretty Pekingese on a leash, she's the best-dressed dog walker we've ever seen.
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