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A Game of Death (1945)

Name: A Game of Death
Director: Robert Wise
Genre: Crime, Remake, Supernatural
Released: 1945
Duration: 72 min
Cast: John Loder, Audrey Long, Edgar Barrier, Russell Wade, Russell Hicks

1945 · Robert Wise · 72 min · United States of America · Edited by 1

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A shipwrecked Don Rainsford washes up on a homicidal big-game hunter's Caribbean island where the madman hunts human prey for his personal island habitat.

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