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The Dictator's Guns (1965)

The Dictator's Guns poster
Original title
L'Arme à gauche
Directed by
Claude Sautet
Genre
crime film
Country
France, Italy
Runtime
1h 43m
Rated
12
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 28 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man gets caught up in a dangerous scheme involving stolen weapons. He must navigate a web of criminals and double-crosses to survive.

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What happens

The Dictator's Guns (French: L'Arme à gauche) is a 1965 French, Spanish and Italian international co-production crime film directed by Claude Sautet and shot in France and Spain. It was based on the 1960 novel Aground by Charles Williams. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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