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La Torre de los Siete Jorobados (1944)

La Torre de los Siete Jorobados poster
Original title
La torre de los siete jorobados
Directed by
Édgar Neville
Genre
horror film, comedy thriller, ghost film
Country
Spain
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 28 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man uses ghostly advice to win money gambling. He then investigates an archaeologist's death and uncovers a hidden Jewish city under old Madrid.

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What happens

The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (Spanish:La Torre de los Siete Jorobados) is a 1944 Spanish mystery film directed by Edgar Neville. It is based on a novel of the same title by Emilio Carrere. In the film, a young man wins a small fortune through gambling according to the advice of an archaeologist's ghost. While investigating the archaeologist's supposed suicide, the man and his friend discover a Jewish underground city beneath Habsburg Madrid. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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