The Five Forty-Eight(1979)
An advertising man, emotionally estranged from his wife and those around him, has seduced and then fired and discarded his secretary. She pursues him and forces him to confront the squalor of his life.
Movie: The Five Forty-Eight
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John Blake
Jane Dent
Louise Blake
Henry Watkins
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