Mata Hari

Lionel Barrymore,Greta Garbo,Karen Morley

Paris, 1917. Mata Hari, the notorious erotic dancer, appears here as an exotic, capricious, self-confident temptress who spies for Germany (when she feels like it). Russian General Shubin is besotted with her, knowing himself a traitor; her latest conquest, Russian courier Alexis Rosanoff, meets less encouragement, until she learns that he is to fly home with crucial dispatches. Will she remember that "a spy in love is a tool that has outlived its usefulness"?—Rod Crawford