(A.k.a. Personal Column.) A stylish remake of Robert Siodmak's French thriller of the late thirties, Pièges, Lured retains its Continental orientation by switching its locale from Paris to London-not always convincingly in terms of detail, but certainly effectively. A mosaic thriller with many red herrings (the most delightful being Boris Karloff in the old von Stroheim role), its plotline is so similar to the current Sea of Love that one can't help but wonder if its out-of-copyright status provided the latter with the impetus for some legal "borrowing." Handsome and exciting, though too traditional type-casting does betray the identity of the mystery killer long before he has done anything remotely suspicious. In the original, White Slavery is the crime behind it all; in the Production Code-controlled remake, it is all explained away rather ingeniously as being about diamond theft, although a smirking, lecherous Joseph Calleia looks singularly uninterested in precious stones! William K. Everson