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''Mata Hari'' was one of the biggest hits of Garbo's career. It was one of the last big roles for Novarro, who had been a big star in the silent movie days but whose career went into decline in TheThirties, probably because of his thick Mexican accent.
Later film adaptations include ''Mata Hari, Agent H21'' (1964), starring Creator/JeanneMoreau, and ''Mata Hari'' (1985), starring Creator/SylviaKristel. Compare ''Film/TheMysteriousLady'', a 1928 Garbo silent film with a similar plot.
Later film adaptations include ''Mata Hari, Agent H21'' (1964), starring Creator/JeanneMoreau, and ''Mata Hari'' (1985), starring Creator/SylviaKristel. Compare ''Film/TheMysteriousLady'', a 1928 Garbo silent film with a similar plot.
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''Mata Hari'' was one of the biggest hits of Garbo's career. It was one of the last big roles for Novarro, who had been a big star in the silent movie days but whose career went into decline in TheThirties, the early '30s, probably because of his thick Mexican accent.
Later film adaptations include ''Mata Hari, Agent H21'' (1964), starring Creator/JeanneMoreau, and''Mata Hari'' ''Film/{{Mata Hari|1985}}'' (1985), starring Creator/SylviaKristel. Compare ''Film/TheMysteriousLady'', a 1928 Garbo silent film with a similar plot.
Later film adaptations include ''Mata Hari, Agent H21'' (1964), starring Creator/JeanneMoreau, and
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Later film adaptations include ''Mata Hari, Agent H21'' (1964), starring Creator/JeanneMoreau, and ''Mata Hari'' (1985), starring Sylvia Kristel.Creator/SylviaKristel. Compare ''Film/TheMysteriousLady'', a 1928 Garbo silent film with a similar plot.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Apparently sending spies to Marseilles is the equivalent of this for Andriani. Carlotta (Karen Morley) knows exactly what it means when he tells her she's going there.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Apparently sending spies to Marseilles is the equivalent of this for Andriani. Carlotta (Karen Morley) (Creator/KarenMorley) knows exactly what it means when he tells her she's going there.
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'''Mata Hari''' is a 1931 film directed by George Fitzmaurice, starring Creator/GretaGarbo and Ramon Novarro. Garbo plays the title role, as the exotic dancer UsefulNotes/MataHari in Paris during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, who is also a spy for the Germans. Creator/LionelBarrymore plays General Shubin, a Russian staff officer in Paris who is Mata Hari's lover and has been passing her secret information. Meanwhile, Lt. Rosanoff (Ramon Novarro) has landed in Paris after flying direct from St. Petersburg, carrying dispatches from the Russian government to France. Shubin takes Lt. Rosanoff to see Mata Hari onstage, and Rosanoff is instantly smitten. Mata Hari then gets to know Rosanoff, in order to steal a copy of the dispatches that he is set to take back to Russia from France--but she winds up falling in love with him.
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Garbo plays the title role, as the exotic dancer UsefulNotes/MataHari in Paris during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, who is also a spy for the Germans. Creator/LionelBarrymore plays General Shubin, a Russian staff officer in Paris who is Mata Hari's lover and has been passing her secret information. Meanwhile, Lt. Rosanoff (Ramon Novarro) has landed in Paris after flying direct from St. Petersburg, carrying dispatches from the Russian government to France. Shubin takes Lt. Rosanoff to see Mata Hari onstage, and Rosanoff is instantly smitten. Mata Hari then gets to know Rosanoff, in order to steal a copy of the dispatches that he is set to take back to Russia from France--but she winds up falling in love with him.
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* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: The real-life Mata Hari was commonly regarded as being rather plain. Here, she's anything but, being played by the gorgeous Greta Garbo.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: UsefulNotes/Mata Hari (actually her stage name, her real name was Margaretha Geertruida Zelle [=MacLeod=]) was a dancer on the stage, she was a spy for the Germans, and she was executed by firing squad. The rest of the movie is fictional.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: UsefulNotes/Mata Hari UsefulNotes/MataHari (actually her stage name, her real name was Margaretha Geertruida Zelle [=MacLeod=]) was a dancer on the stage, she was a spy for the Germans, and she was executed by firing squad. The rest of the movie is fictional.
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''Mata Hari'' is a 1931 film directed by George Fitzmaurice, starring Creator/GretaGarbo and Ramon Novarro. Garbo plays the title role, as the exotic dancer in Paris during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, who is also a spy for the Germans. Creator/LionelBarrymore plays General Shubin, a Russian staff officer in Paris who is Mata Hari's lover and has been passing her secret information. Meanwhile, Lt. Rosanoff (Ramon Novarro) has landed in Paris after flying direct from St. Petersburg, carrying dispatches from the Russian government to France. Shubin takes Lt. Rosanoff to see Mata Hari onstage, and Rosanoff is instantly smitten. Mata Hari then gets to know Rosanoff, in order to steal a copy of the dispatches that he is set to take back to Russia from France--but she winds up falling in love with him.
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* FemmeFataleSpy: Well, duh, it's about UsefulNotes/MataHari!
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Apparently sending spies to Marseilles is the equivalent of this for Andriani. Carlotta (Karen Morley) knows exactly what it means when he tells her she's going there.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Apparently sending spies to Marseilles is the equivalent of this for Andriani. Carlotta (Karen Morley) knows exactly what it means when he tells her she's going there.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: There was a woman named Mata UsefulNotes/Mata Hari (actually her stage name, her real name was Margaretha Geertruida Zelle [=MacLeod=]). She [=MacLeod=]) was a dancer on the stage, she was a spy for the Germans, and she was executed by firing squad. The rest of the movie is fictional.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Apparently sending spies to Marseilles is the equivalent of this for Andriani. Carlotta (Karen Morley) knows exactly what it means when he tells her she's goingthere.there.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Apparently sending spies to Marseilles is the equivalent of this for Andriani. Carlotta (Karen Morley) knows exactly what it means when he tells her she's going
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''Mata Hari'' is a 1931 film directed by George Fitzmaurice, starring Creator/GretaGarbo and Ramon Novarro. Garbo plays the title role, as the exotic dancer in Paris during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, who is also a spy for the Germans. Creator/LionelBarrymore plays General Shubin, a Russian staff officer in Paris who is Mata Hari's lover and has been passing her secret information. Meanwhile, Lt. Rosanoff (Ramon Novarro) has landed in Paris after flying direct from St. Petersburg, carrying dispatches from the Russian government to France. Shubin takes Lt. Rosanoff to see Mata Hari onstage, and Rosanoff is instantly smitten. Mata Hari then gets to know Rosanoff, in order to steal a copy of the dispatches that he is set to take back to Russia from France--but she winds up falling in love with him.
''Mata Hari'' was one of the biggest hits of Garbo's career. It was one of the last big roles for Novarro, who had been a big star in the silent movie days but whose career went into decline in TheThirties, probably because of his thick Mexican accent.
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* EvilCripple: The hit man that Andriani uses has a short leg. He wears a special shoe with a thick sole, and walks with a noticeable limp.
* HaveAGayOldTime: "I like gambling. They laugh, it's gay there."
* HighClassGlass: Both Shubin and Andriani, being very fancy people, wear monocles.
* HighHeelFaceTurn: Mata Hari resigns from spy work rather than go to Amsterdam and abandon her wounded lover, Rosanoff.
* HoneyTrap: Mata Hari is this for Gen. Shubin, her lover, who helps her pass information out of France. She's this for Rosanoff too, sort of--she gets him to take her home and thus gains access to the secret dispatches.
* LeaveBehindAPistol: Andriani, the German spymaster, does this for one of his operatives after said operative passed on bad intel about a new weapon called a "[[TankGoodness tank]]".
* MacGuffin: The secret dispatches that Lt. Rosanoff is supposed to take back to St. Petersburg.
* MataHari: [[CaptainObvious Yup.]]
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Novarro and Barrymore, both playing Russian officers, sound like a Mexican and an American respectively.
* ResignationsNotAccepted: After Mata Hari quits spying, Andriani sends his hit man out to kill her. She escapes from the hit man but winds up getting arrested.
* SexyBacklessOutfit: Mata Hari wears such a dress when she goes out to the casino.
* ShotAtDawn: The film opens with some German spies being executed. This is Mata Hari's fate as well, but the film ends as she's being marched away.
* SpyFiction: Classic "Martini Flavored" variety, with glamorous women, guys in tuxedoes and dress uniforms, passing secret info at a fancy casino, etc.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: There was a woman named Mata Hari (actually her stage name, her real name was Margaretha Geertruida Zelle [=MacLeod=]). She was a dancer on the stage, she was a spy for the Germans, and she was executed by firing squad. The rest of the movie is fictional.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Apparently sending spies to Marseilles is the equivalent of this for Andriani. Carlotta (Karen Morley) knows exactly what it means when he tells her she's going there.
''Mata Hari'' was one of the biggest hits of Garbo's career. It was one of the last big roles for Novarro, who had been a big star in the silent movie days but whose career went into decline in TheThirties, probably because of his thick Mexican accent.
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* EvilCripple: The hit man that Andriani uses has a short leg. He wears a special shoe with a thick sole, and walks with a noticeable limp.
* HaveAGayOldTime: "I like gambling. They laugh, it's gay there."
* HighClassGlass: Both Shubin and Andriani, being very fancy people, wear monocles.
* HighHeelFaceTurn: Mata Hari resigns from spy work rather than go to Amsterdam and abandon her wounded lover, Rosanoff.
* HoneyTrap: Mata Hari is this for Gen. Shubin, her lover, who helps her pass information out of France. She's this for Rosanoff too, sort of--she gets him to take her home and thus gains access to the secret dispatches.
* LeaveBehindAPistol: Andriani, the German spymaster, does this for one of his operatives after said operative passed on bad intel about a new weapon called a "[[TankGoodness tank]]".
* MacGuffin: The secret dispatches that Lt. Rosanoff is supposed to take back to St. Petersburg.
* MataHari: [[CaptainObvious Yup.]]
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Novarro and Barrymore, both playing Russian officers, sound like a Mexican and an American respectively.
* ResignationsNotAccepted: After Mata Hari quits spying, Andriani sends his hit man out to kill her. She escapes from the hit man but winds up getting arrested.
* SexyBacklessOutfit: Mata Hari wears such a dress when she goes out to the casino.
* ShotAtDawn: The film opens with some German spies being executed. This is Mata Hari's fate as well, but the film ends as she's being marched away.
* SpyFiction: Classic "Martini Flavored" variety, with glamorous women, guys in tuxedoes and dress uniforms, passing secret info at a fancy casino, etc.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: There was a woman named Mata Hari (actually her stage name, her real name was Margaretha Geertruida Zelle [=MacLeod=]). She was a dancer on the stage, she was a spy for the Germans, and she was executed by firing squad. The rest of the movie is fictional.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Apparently sending spies to Marseilles is the equivalent of this for Andriani. Carlotta (Karen Morley) knows exactly what it means when he tells her she's going there.
