The Devil's Jest

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"An aristocratic widow discovers that her former lover, a medical officer in the British army, is secretly a German spy. A terribly cheap WWII espionage b-movie with nothing to recommend about a remote clifftop castle and the sinister Nazi official lurking around inside. It has boring dialogue and stilted, grimacing performances. The heroes in the movie are so stupid that they repeatedly allow the main character to win the upper hand simply by doing nothing, and the ending is rushed. The only g"