The Great Impostor (1961)
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Directors
Robert Mulligan
Cast
Tony Curtis, Karl Malden, Edmond O'Brien, Arthur O'Connell, Gary Merrill
The story
As he is arrested by the state police on an island in New England, a man born as Ferdinand Waldo Demara, but known by many other identities, recalls the events that brought him to this point. Demara quit high school as a boy and joined the U.S. Army.
Genres
Drama, Komödie, biographical film, comedy drama, comedy film
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