--- title: 'The Great Impersonation (1935)' type: 'film' director: 'Alan Crosland' released: '1935-01-01' runtime_minutes: 68 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-great-impersonation-1935' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026438/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Great Impersonation (1935) 1935 · 68 min · Drama · United States ## Synopsis The Great Impersonation is a 1935 Universal Pictures American drama film directed by Alan Crosland and starring Edmund Lowe, Valerie Hobson and Wera Engels. It was adapted from the 1920 novel The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim. The film bears some aesthetic similarities to the Universal horror films of the 1930s. Two other film versions of the story were produced with the same title in 1921 and 1942. ## Credits - **Director:** [Alan Crosland](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-crosland) - **Screenplay:** [E. Phillips Oppenheim](https://cinepixo.com/people/e-phillips-oppenheim) - **Original Music Composer:** [Heinz Eric Roemheld](https://cinepixo.com/people/heinz-eric-roemheld) - **Director of Photography:** [Milton Krasner](https://cinepixo.com/people/milton-krasner) ## Cast - [Esther Dale](https://cinepixo.com/people/esther-dale) - [Leonard Mudie](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonard-mudie) - [Wera Engels](https://cinepixo.com/people/wera-engels) - [Valerie Hobson](https://cinepixo.com/people/valerie-hobson) - [Frank Reicher](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-reicher) - [Murray Kinnell](https://cinepixo.com/people/murray-kinnell) - [Lumsden Hare](https://cinepixo.com/people/lumsden-hare) - [Spring Byington](https://cinepixo.com/people/spring-byington) - [Charles Waldron](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-waldron) - [Edmund Lowe](https://cinepixo.com/people/edmund-lowe) - [Ivan Simpson](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivan-simpson) - [Claude King](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-king) - [Brandon Hurst](https://cinepixo.com/people/brandon-hurst) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-great-impersonation-1935 Film facts: Wikidata (Q7737803); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.