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Traidora y mortal
1947 | B/N | 97:00

Jeff Bailey, a former private detective who runs a gas station in a quiet California town, is very much in love with his young girlfriend. Unexpectedly, he receives a visit from an old acquaintance who announces that the boss, Whit Sterling, wants to see him. Bailey is then forced to tell his girlfriend about his shady former life as Jeff Markham, a detective hired by Sterling to find his runaway lover.


Country: Estados Unidos
Direction: Tourneur; Jacques
Script: Mainwaring; Daniel
Production: Warren Duff
Photography: Musuraca; Nicholas
Art direction: D’Agostino; Albert S., Okey; Jack
Participation year at FICM: 2022

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Out of the Past

A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and dishonest women.

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