Under Secret Orders

{{Infobox film

| name = Under Secret Orders

| image = Under Secret Orders poster.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = Edmond T. Gréville

| producer = Max Schach

| writer = Adaptation:
Marcel Achard

| screenplay = Ernest Betts
Jacques Natanson

| story = Georges Hereaux
Irma von Cube

| starring = Erich von Stroheim
John Loder
Dita Parlo
Claire Luce

| music = Hans May

| cinematography = Alfred Black

| editing = Ray Pitt

| studio = Grafton Films
Trafalgar Film Productions

| distributor = United Artists

| released = {{film date|df=y|1937|12||UK|1943|7|1|US}}

| runtime = 84 minutes
66 minutes (US)

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

}}

Under Secret Orders, also known as Mademoiselle Doctor, is a 1937 British spy film directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Erich von Stroheim, John Loder, Dita Parlo and Claire Luce.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114012541/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/271226 BFI Database entry] It is an English-language version of the French film Mademoiselle Docteur, also known as Salonique, nid d'espions, and released in the United States as Street of Shadows, which was filmed at the same time under the direction of G. W. Pabst. Both films have exactly the same plot, but there were differences in the cast between the two: in particular, von Stroheim was not in the French version.Thames, Stephanie. [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/3181/stamboul-quest#articles-reviews "Stamboul Quest (1934)" (article)] on TCM.com

Premise

During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for German intelligence.

Cast

Erich von Stroheim as Col. W. Mathesius / Simonis
John Loder as Lt. Peter Carr
Dita Parlo as Dr. Anne-Marie Lesser
Claire Luce as Gaby, Rene's girl
Gyles Isham as Lt. Hans Hoffman
Clifford Evans as Rene Condoyan
John Abbott as Armand
Anthony Holles as Mario
Edward Lexy as Carr's orderly
Robert Nainby as French General
Bryan Powley as Col. Burgoyne, French Secret Service
Molly Hamley-Clifford as Madame Samuloi, Proprietor of the Blue Peacock
Raymond Lovell as Col. von Steinberg
Frederick Lloyd as Col. Marchand, Carr's boss
Claude Horton as Captain Fitzmaurice

Cast notes:

Stewart Granger appears in a small role

Reception

Writing for Night and Day in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a poor review, summarizing it as more movie than cinema. Greene described the writing as "a really shocking script, with childish continuity" and criticized the dialogue as "it ambles flatly along".{{cite journal |last= Greene|first= Graham|author-link= Graham Greene|date= 16 December 1937|title= Monica and Martin/Mademoiselle Docteur/Eastern Valley|journal= Night and Day}} (reprinted in: {{cite book |editor-last= Taylor|editor-first= John Russell |editor-link= John Russell Taylor|date= 1980|title= The Pleasure Dome|publisher= Oxford University Press|page= 186|isbn=0192812866}})