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The Invader (Original title)Carambola D'amore (Alternative title)An Old Spanish Custom (Alternative title)The Intruder (Alternative title)
Date: 1936 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Adrian Brunel

Synopsis: Comedy set in Spain. A young woman pretends to love a wealthy tourist so that her husband will become jealous, murder the tourist, be arrested and thus leaving her free to be with her lover.

Genre:
Comedy
Releases
Date: 1936Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 61 mins Length: 5500 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (14)
Production Company: British & Continental Film Production, Producer: Sam Spiegel, Production Manager: Harold Richmond, Assistant Director: Pelham Leigh-aman, Script: Edwin Greenwood, Photography: Eugen Schüfftan, Camera Operator: Eric Cross, Editor: Daniel Birt, Art Director: J. Elder Wills, Song 'Starlight' by: George F. Rubins, Music Director: John Greenwood, Sound: Dennis Scanlan, Studio: Worton Hall Studios
Cast (8)
Buster Keaton (Leander Proudfoot), Lupita Tovar (Lupita Malez), Esmé Percy (Jose), Lyn Harding (Gonzalo Gonzalez), Hilda Moreno (Carmita), Clifford Heatherley (Cheeseman, Proudfoot's valet), Andrea Malandrinos (Carlos, the barman), Webster Booth (serenader)