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Too Dangerous to Live (1939)

Too Dangerous to Live poster
Directed by
Anthony Hankey, Leslie Norman
Genre
crime film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 14m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A criminal underworld in London is threatened by a mysterious figure. A group of gangsters must navigate betrayal and violence to survive.

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What happens

Too Dangerous to Live is a 1939 British crime film directed by Anthony Hankey and Leslie Norman and starring Sebastian Shaw, Anna Konstam and Reginald Tate. The screenplay was by Leslie Arliss, Connery Chappell and Paul Gangelin based on the 1933 novel Crime Unlimited by David Hume. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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