The Great Impersonation (1935 film)

The Great Impersonation is a 1935 Universal Pictures American drama film directed by Alan Crosland and starring Edmund Lowe, Valerie Hobson and Wera Engels.

Before World War I, Sir Everard Dominey, a drunken upper-class Englishman, encounters an old acquaintance, the sinister German arms dealer Baron Leopold von Ragostein, in Africa.

The two men are identical, and von Ragostein plans to kill his doppelgänger and take his place in British high society, where he will be able to further his arms business and spy on Britain for the Germans.

When von Ragostein returns to London, assuming the identity of Dominey, he encounters the German aristocrat Stephanie Elderstrom, who is certain that she recognizes him as her former lover.

Gradually, doubts begin to emerge about the true identity of the man who has come home.