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Mercado negro (1953)

Mercado negro poster
Directed by
Kurt Land
Genre
crime film
Country
Argentina
Runtime
1h 23m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A policeman finds out his girlfriend's father is involved in drug smuggling. He must decide what to do about the family connection.

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What happens

The Black Market (Spanish:Mercado negro) is a 1953 Argentine crime film of the classical era of Argentine cinema, directed by Kurt Land and starring Olga Zubarry, Santiago Gómez Cou and Mario Passano. The film's sets were designed by Carlos T. Dowling. A policeman discovers that his girlfriend's father heads a drug smuggling outfit. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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