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Dust Be My Destiny (1939)

Dust Be My Destiny poster
Directed by
Lewis Seiler
Genre
drama film, prison film, trial film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 28m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 20 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man is wrongly sent to a brutal work farm. After escaping, he falls in love and tries to build a new life, but his past keeps pulling him back into trouble.

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What happens

Dust Be My Destiny is a 1939 American drama film starring John Garfield as a man who gets into trouble after being sentenced to a work farm. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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