Eduard Franz
Also Known As: Eduard Franz Schmidt, ادوارد فرانتس
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eduard Franz (born Eduard Franz Schmidt; October 31, 1902 – February 10, 1987) was an American actor of theatre, film and television. Franz portrayed King Ahab in the 1953 biblical low-budget film Sins of Jezebel, Jethro in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956), and Jehoam in Henry Koster's The Story of Ruth (1960). By 1936, Franz was a player on the national stage, performing from coast to coast. He became a leading Broadway actor for nearly 30 years, in such plays as First Stop to Heaven and Embezzled Heaven and Conversation At Midnight. He made his film debut in a bit part, in 1947, in Killer at Large, but followed that brief appearance the next year with a memorable role in the motion picture The Scar (also titled Hollow Triumph). His fourth movie saw him acting with John Wayne in Wake of the Red Witch, in 1948. He portrayed Chief Broken Hand in White Feather. He played such intellectuals as Dr. Stern in The Thing from Another World (1951), a university professor in The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959), and Justice Louis Brandeis in The Magnificent Yankee (1950), a role he reprised in the 1965 television adaptation. He appeared in a 1957 television adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel Beyond This Place, which was directed by Sidney Lumet. Franz performed as well in two separate remakes of Al Jolson's 1927 cinema classic The Jazz Singer, each time playing the key role of the aged and ailing synagogue cantor upset by his son's decision to pursue a secular show-business career rather than continue the family tradition and follow in his father's religious footsteps. Those remakes were the 1952 film version of the story starring Danny Thomas and the 1959 television version starring Jerry Lewis. Franz performed in a number of television series, including Gunsmoke; Have Gun - Will Travel; The Law and Mr. Jones; The Barbara Stanwyck Show and Cimarron City. Franz was cast as psychiatric clinic director Dr. Edward Raymer in 30 episodes of the weekly ABC medical drama Breaking Point
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Birthday: October 31, 1902
Deathday: February 10, 1983
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Gender: Male
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Man on the Ledge
Overview: Beat cop Bragan is about to go off duty when he discovers a man standing on the ledge of a hotel more than a dozen stories up. Bragan tries to talk the man, Robert Cosick, down from his threatening perch and in the process learns the reasons for the Robert's suicide attempt.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-28
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The Thing from Another World
Overview: Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-05
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Hatari!
Overview: A female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild animals for zoos and circuses.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-19
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The Ten Commandments
Overview: Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-05
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Overview: The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-16
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Hollow Triumph
Overview: Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-18
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The Iron Curtain
Overview: The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to the U.S.S.R. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada in the midst of World War II. Eventually, Gouzenko defected with 109 pages of material implicating several high level Canadian officials, outlined the steps taken to secure information about the the details of the nuclear bomb via numerous sleeper cells established throughout North America. The scandal that resulted when details of this case were publicized by American columnist Drew Pearson in early 1946 involved Canada, Britain and the United States.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-16
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Whirlpool
Overview: The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-13
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Wake of the Red Witch
Overview: Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-30
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Broken Lance
Overview: Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison. Matt dies from a stroke partly caused by his rebellious sons and when Joe gets out he plans revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-25
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The Story of Ruth
Overview: Ruth is one of two Moabite women who marry the sons of Elimelech and Naomi. When Elimelech and sons Mahlon and Chillion die, leaving Naomi a widow with two widowed daughters-in-law, Naomi decides to return to Israel. One daughter-in-law, Orpah, bids her goodbye. Daughter-in-law Ruth however says she will not desert her.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-17
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Beachhead
Overview: On a Japanese-occupied island during World War II, only two soldiers remain alive after a mission attempt goes horribly wrong. Trapped on the island, they must escort a scientist and his daughter to the other side of the island where their ship awaits. They must battle nature, hard terrain, and advancing Japanese troops.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-05
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Madame Bovary
Overview: A frivolous country girl married to a naïve small-town doctor goes down the path of destruction when she grows tired of her limited social status.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-25
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Johnny Got His Gun
Overview: A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-04
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The Unknown Man
Overview: A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-09
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Dream Wife
Overview: Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple. Unfortunately there seems to be too much business and not enough pleasure on the part of Effie. When Clemson meets Tarji, a princess trained in all the arts of pleasing men, he decides he wants an old fashioned girl. Princess Tarji's father is king of oil-rich Bukistan. Because of the oil situation and to maintain good political relations during the courtship between Clemson & Tarji, the State Department assigns a diplomat to maintain protocol until the wedding - Effie!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-19
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The Indian Fighter
Overview: A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-21
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The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
Overview: Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother's funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing. When his brother's skull shows up later in a locked cabinet, Drake realizes an ancient curse placed upon his grandfather by a tribe of South American Jivaro Indians is still in effect and that he himself is the probable next victim.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-13
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The Magnificent Yankee
Overview: Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-20
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Francis of Assisi
Overview: In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-12
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The Great Caruso
Overview: Enrico Caruso's only passion is to sing. For that, he leaves his hometown of Naples, Italy, and travels to America to sing for the Metropolitan Opera. At first, his lack of education and poor background make him an outcast in the high-class opera world. Eventually, his voice wins him both fans and the hand of his love, Dorothy. But his nonstop pace and desire to perform at any cost eventually take their toll on the singer's health.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-16
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The Burning Hills
Overview: When Trace Jordan's brother is murdered by members of the land-grabbing Sutton family, he vows to report this injustice to the nearest Army fort.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-01
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Collector’s Item
Overview: Mr. Prentiss is an appraiser at his firm, the House of Prentiss. He is about to go to Florida to appraise a vast collection of a recently deceased collector, Van der Locken, when he receives an unwanted visit from Ivor Hager, who informs him of "The Left Fist of David," a valuable but mysterious art object that was stolen from a Mexican church. An unsold TV Pilot
Genres: Adventure Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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White Feather
Overview: The story of the peace mission from the US cavalry to the Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming during the 1870s. The mission is threatened when a civilian surveyor befriends the chief's son and falls for the chief's daughter.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-16
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Lady Godiva of Coventry
Overview: Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-02
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Man Afraid
Overview: A preacher (George Nader) fears for his family (Phyllis Thaxter, Tim Hovey) after killing a teenage burglar whose father seeks revenge.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-04
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The Last of the Fast Guns
Overview: A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En route, it becomes clear to Ellison that his is a dying profession. At a remote rancho, Ellison enlists ranch foreman Miles Lang to help him search the hills where the missing man is rumored to have lived. They find nothing ...except that someone wants to kill them; and Ellison becomes wrapped in a maze of double crosses.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-01
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Shadow in the Sky
Overview: Burt, a Marine suffering from Battle Fatigue, is deathly afraid of rain and confined to an asylum, but showing improvement. He wants to live with his sister's family, but they have young children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-18
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One Minute to Zero
Overview: An idealistic United Nations official learns the harrowing truth about war when she falls in love with an American officer charged with the evacuation of civilians. As hostilities escalate, the officer and his small detachment are left to hold the line until allied forces can be brought into action.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-19
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Everything I Have Is Yours
Overview: A husband and wife act are hoping to find success on Broadway.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-31
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Outpost in Morocco
Overview: Captain Gerard, greatest lover in the Foreign Legion, is assigned to escort an emir's daughter to her father's mountain citadel and find out what he can about the emir's activities. Gerard enjoys his work with lovely Cara, but arrives to find rebellion brewing.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-02
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Latin Lovers
Overview: An heiress searches for true love while vacationing in Brazil.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-12
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Beauty and the Beast
Overview: A low-budget re-telling of the classic fairy tale.
Genres: Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-01
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The Jazz Singer
Overview: A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-14
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Oh, You Beautiful Doll
Overview: Period musical about a song plugger who vows to turn an opera composer's music into popular hits.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-11
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Sins of Jezebel
Overview: The aging king of Israel, Ahab, falls under the influence of a young and beautiful but scheming Pagan woman named Jezebel and, against the advice of his advisers and the prophet Elijah, marries her. Her plan to introduce her idols to Israel angers God, who wreaks vengeance on Israel.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-04
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Three for Jamie Dawn
Overview: Three jurors are ripe for bribery by the lawyer of a playgirl up for murder.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-08
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The Vicious Years
Overview: Mario, an Italian war orphan, sees Luca Rossi commit a murder. Eager for a home and family life, Mario promises not to tell the police if Luca takes him into his household and family. Luca fears and hates Mario, but his father, mother and sister all come to love him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-10
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Twilight Zone: The Movie
Overview: An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"—and one original story, "Time Out."
Genres: Horror Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-24
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The Big Moment
Overview: Three individual stories that give an account of crucial moments in the lives of three different people: one is a young thief from Casablanca, another is an immigrant doctor brought to the United States and the third is a girl who survived the Holocaust. All three are given a chance to live with dignity and self-respect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-07
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Emergency Wedding
Overview: Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous his wife is spending too much time with her male patients. He makes a fool of himself trying to prove her guilt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-15
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The Goldbergs
Overview: Feature film using characters from the popular radio show and the pioneering 1949 TV series, about a Bronx family coping with everyday problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-23
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The Du Pont Story
Overview: A straight-line historical account of the Du Pont chemical manufacturing company and its vital role in the growth of the USA.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-15
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Sign of the Pagan
Overview: Roman centurion Marcian is captured by Attila the Hun en route to Constantinople, but escapes. On arrival, he finds the eastern Roman emperor Theodosius plotting with Attila to look the other way while the latter marches against Rome. But Marcian gains the favor of Pulcheria, lovely sister of Theodosius, who favors a united Empire.
Genres: History Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-24
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Francis
Overview: The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his right mind. In the process of all this, the mule assisted in uncovering a spy, Mareen, who pretended to be lost among the jungles, but was actually...
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-08
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The Last Command
Overview: During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans. They don't heed his advice since he's a Mexican citizen, married to the daughter of the Mexican vice-governor of the province and a friend to General Santa Anna since the days they had fought together for Mexico's independence. After serving as president for 22 years, Santa Anna has become too powerful and arrogant. He rules Mexico with an iron fist and he would not allow Texas to self-govern. Bowie sides with the Texans in their bid for independence and urges a cautious strategy, given Santa Anna's power and cunning. Despite the disagreement between the Texicans and Bowie regarding the right strategy they ask Bowie to lead them in a last-ditch stand, at Alamo, against General Santa Anna's numerically superior forces.
Genres: History Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-03
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Day of the Badman
Overview: Judge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he's about to sentence...and his unfaithful fiancee.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-29
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Living It Up
Overview: Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His doctor and best friend, Steve Harris (Martin), diagnoses him with radiation poisoning and gives Homer three weeks to live. A reporter for a New York newspaper, hears of Homer's plight and convinces her editor, to provide an all-expenses paid trip to New York.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-15
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The Fiercest Heart
Overview: Two British soldiers in 1830s South Africa flee military discipline and join a group of Boers heading north on "the Great Trek." In between fighting off Zulu attacks, one of these soldiers falls in love with the trek-leader's granddaughter who has been promised to another man.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-30
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A Certain Smile
Overview: A pretty Parisian law student falls in love with her boyfriend's uncle.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-31
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The Brotherhood of the Bell
Overview: A successful professor has his life disrupted by a secret from his past — in his college days he became a member of a powerful secret society, and now the society has a job for him.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-17
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Panic on the 5:22
Overview: Three armed men take over a private railroad car, determined to rob and kill the passengers.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-20
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Because You're Mine
Overview: A famous opera singer falls for his sergeant's sister at boot camp.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-01
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The President's Analyst
Overview: At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away. Now spies from all over the world are after him, either to get him for their own side or to kill him and prevent someone else from getting him.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-21
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Cyborg 2087
Overview: In the future world of the year 2087, freedom of thought is illegal and the thoughts of the world's populations are controlled by the government. A small band of "free thinkers" send a cyborg back in time to the year 1966 to prevent a scientist from making the breakthrough that will eventually lead to the mass thought control of the future. Our time traveler soon discovers he is not alone when government agents from the future try to prevent him from carrying out his mission.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-01
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Not One Shall Die
Overview: A short film by the United Jewish Appeal, directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Guy Madison, Felicia Farr and Agnes Moorehead, made by the core crew of many Columbia noirs, including cinematographer Burnett Guffey, art director Cary Odell, editor Al Clark, set decorator Frank Tuttle, and composer Morris Stoloff.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Three Lives
Overview: A short film made for the United Jewish Appeal, reuniting the main players behind The Sniper, writers Edna and Edward Anhalt, director Edward Dmytryk, and star Arthur Franz.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-17
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