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La Bestia debe morir (1952)

La Bestia debe morir poster
Original title
La bestia debe morir
Directed by
Román Viñoly Barreto
Genre
thriller film
Country
Argentina
Runtime
1h 32m
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 31 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man sets out to track down the person who killed his son. He takes on a false identity and gets close to his suspect to plan his revenge.

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What happens

The Beast Must Die (Spanish: La bestia debe morir) is a 1952 Argentine thriller film of the classical era of Argentine cinema, directed by Román Viñoly Barreto and starring Laura Hidalgo Guillermo Battaglia and Narciso Ibáñez Menta. It based on the 1938 novel The Beast Must Die by Irish writer Cecil Day-Lewis, part of his series featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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