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13 West Street (1962)

13 West Street poster
Directed by
Philip Leacock
Genre
drama film, crime film, thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 20m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 15 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man is attacked one night and left for dead. He sets out to find his attackers with the help of a detective.

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What happens

13 West Street is a 1962 American neo-noir crime film directed by Philip Leacock and starring Alan Ladd and Rod Steiger, whose own production company produced the film. It is based on the 1957 novel The Tiger Among Us by Leigh Brackett, who called the film "very, very dull." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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