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Three Steps North (1951)

Three Steps North poster
Directed by
W. Lee Wilder
Genre
film noir
Country
Italy, United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.4 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An American ex-soldier returns to Italy after World War Two trying to recover stolen money from a buried cache. He gets entangled with local people and faces obstacles in his quest.

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What happens

Three Steps North is a 1951 Italian-American film noir directed by W. Lee Wilder and starring Lloyd Bridges, Lea Padovani and Aldo Fabrizi. The film is known as Tre passi a nord in Italy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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