This Mad World
This Mad World is a 1930 American pre-Code film directed by William C. deMille and starring Basil Rathbone, Kay Johnson and Louise Dresser. A drama, it sees a French spy return home to German-occupied France during World War I to find a German general living in his house. Premise. In 1938, a French spy goes home and finds an evil German officer killed his family. He then return to his spying carrier to take revenge.