Nightfall

Nightfall

6.9IMDb Score
Released:1956-11-09
Duration:79 min
Director:Jacques Tourneur
Actors:Aldo Ray, Anne Bancroft, Brian Keith, James Gregory, Jocelyn Brando
Production:Copa Productions, Columbia Pictures

Overview:

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

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