Not too long before Greta Garbo played the most famous female spy of all in Mata Hari, during her silent screen period she was cast in The Mysterious Lady as a Mata Hari type. Garbo plays a Russian spy working under her Russian spymaster Gustav Von Seyffertitz who was one of the great villains of the silent screen.
Her mission is to get a copy of the Hapsburg war plans and the one she chooses as her target is staff officer Conrad Nagel. Nagel's like putty in her hands and though she even falls for him, she does her duty by the czar.
But when she wants out Von Seyffertitz won't let her out. In the meantime Nagel has escaped and he's determined to clear his name. After that Garbo decides that true love is for her.
Though Garbo and Nagel did not become a screen team in the way that Garbo and John Gilbert did, Nagel was more than adequate as a replacement for Gilbert in a role that probably he got first crack at. Garbo is divinely alluring as only Garbo could be.
Good film and it worked out for Garbo far better than Flesh And The Devil did.
Her mission is to get a copy of the Hapsburg war plans and the one she chooses as her target is staff officer Conrad Nagel. Nagel's like putty in her hands and though she even falls for him, she does her duty by the czar.
But when she wants out Von Seyffertitz won't let her out. In the meantime Nagel has escaped and he's determined to clear his name. After that Garbo decides that true love is for her.
Though Garbo and Nagel did not become a screen team in the way that Garbo and John Gilbert did, Nagel was more than adequate as a replacement for Gilbert in a role that probably he got first crack at. Garbo is divinely alluring as only Garbo could be.
Good film and it worked out for Garbo far better than Flesh And The Devil did.