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Port Afrique (1956)

Port Afrique poster
Directed by
Rudolph Maté
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 32m
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man returns to his ranch in North Africa after the war and finds his wife has been murdered. He sets out to find who killed her and why.

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What happens

Port Afrique is a 1956 British drama film directed by Rudolph Maté and starring Pier Angeli, Philip Carey and Dennis Price as Robert Blackton. It was written by John Cresswell based on the 1948 novel of the same name by Bernard Victor Dryer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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