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Alimony (1949)

Alimony poster
Directed by
Alfred Zeisler
Genre
drama film, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A father searches for his missing daughter. Her former lover tells the story of their relationship and reveals how she got into trouble working for a lawyer and being charged with fraud.

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What happens

Alimony is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Martha Vickers. The film starts with a father's search for his daughter who has disappeared. A former love interest of the missing woman narrates the events of their relationship, the nature of the woman's employment by a lawyer, and of her arrest on charges of fraud. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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