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Love from a Stranger(1947)
Status: Released
Date: 1947-11-15
57%
8 Votes
Time: 1h 21m
He lied, cheated, and killed all in the name of love.
Overview:
Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.
Languages: English.
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Movie: Love from a Stranger
Top 9 Billed Cast
John Hodiak
Manuel Cortez
Sylvia Sidney
Cecily Harrington
Ann Richards
Mavis Wilson
John Howard
Nigel Lawrence
Isobel Elsom
Auntie Loo-Loo Gerard
Ernest Cossart
Billings
Philip Tonge
Dr. Gribble
Anita Sharp-Bolster
Ethel
Frederick Worlock
Inspector Hobday
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Overview
Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.
Release Date
1947-11-15
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He lied, cheated, and killed all in the name of love.
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