5.8Summary
A down-and-out student is hired to kill a wealthy woman. When someone else is suspected of the crime, the student taunts police until they realize that they may have to wrong man.
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- Directed by
- Burgess Meredith
- Written by
- Harry Brown, Georges Simenon
- Produced by
- Franchot Tone, Irving Allen
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Facts
December 12, 1949 · 1 h 37 min · NR
- Released
- December 12, 1949
- Runtime
- 1 h 37 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Content
- Violence
- Genres
- Thriller
- Original language
- English
- Also spoken
- French
- Made in
- France, United States
- Available in
- 138 countries