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1953 | B/N | 80 min

Eve and Harry Graham are trying to adopt a baby. The head of the adoption agency senses that Harry is keeping a secret and does some investigating. He soon discovers that Harry has done an unusual amount of traveling from his home in San Francisco to Los Angeles. Harry gets tracked down in L.A. where he has a second family.  How has he been able to maintain this “double life”? The answer is found in this work by the first woman to direct a film noir in Hollywood in the 1950s.

 


Country: Estados Unidos
Direction: Lupino; Ida
Script: Young; Collier, Schor; Lou, Marcus; Larry
Production: Young; Collier, Eggenweiler; Robert
Photography: E Diskant; George
Sound: Wilson; Howard, Tyler; Dick
Music: Stevens; Leith
Cast:Lupino; Ida, Fontaine; Joan, O?brien; Edmond, Gwenn; Edmund
Participation year at FICM: 2010

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