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Movie: Death Was a Passenger
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Terence Alexander
Young Man
Roland Brand
Nazi
Harriette Johns
Mother Superior
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Overview
Strangers conversing in a train compartment, revive wartime memories for one passenger.
Release Date
1958-01-01
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