"Revealing! Startling! Searing!"

1955

1h 10m

4.9(19 votes)

Crime

Drama

Thriller

Overview

When a scheming fortune hunter finds his rich wife is not going to die as expected, he and his lover make other plans to get her millions.

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11 members

Acting

John Bromfield

Ricardo De Villa

Acting

Martha Vickers

Valerie Bancroft

Acting

Robert Hutton

Dr. Peter Kirk

Acting

Rosemarie Stack

Fritzie Darvel

Acting

Eve Miller

Marsha Jordan

Acting

Max Palmer

Det. Sgt. John Fullmer

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Eddie Bee

Don Darvel

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Robert Bice

Dr. Tom Harrison

Acting

Pierre Watkin

Mr. Winthrop

Acting

Mitchell Kowall

Coroner

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George Conrad

Bell Boy

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