Adam's Woman(1970)
Adam is a young American wrongly accused of being an accomplice to murder while on shore leave in Liverpool. He is sentenced to death by hanging but the sentence is commuted to twenty years in a convict settlement in Australia.
Movie: Adam's Woman
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Adam
Bess
Sir Philip MacDonald
Dyson
O'Shea
Duchess
Matron (as Clarissa Kaye)
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Adam is a young American wrongly accused of being an accomplice to murder while on shore leave in Liverpool. He is sentenced to death by hanging but the sentence is commuted to twenty years in a convict settlement in Australia.
Release Date
1970-03-19
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