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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

The Girl In The Kremlin (1957)

In Moscow, the dictator Josef Stalin (Maurice Manson) fakes his own death and has plastic surgery to alter his appearance then goes into hiding. An ex-O.S.S. agent (Lex Barker) accompanied by a Lithuanian refugee (Zsa Zsa Gabor) trying to find her twin sister (Zsa Zsa Gabor) travel from Berlin to Greece in search of Stalin and the twin sister. Directed by Russell Birdwell (THE COME ON), this farfetched ludicrous tale is so wonky that it's almost fun to watch. So much of it makes little logical sense like the sadistic shaving heads sequence or Barker being whipped by a widow seeking revenge other than sensationalism. Surprisingly, in the brief role of the brainwashed twin sister, Gabor gives her best screen performance. A guilty pleasure to some, those for a taste for the trashy might give it a look. With Jeffrey Stone and William Schallert.

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