The Searching Wind (1946)
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Directors
William Dieterle
Cast
Ann Richards, Robert Young, Sylvia Sidney
The story
In 1945, after hearing of the death of Mussolini, an American career diplomat and his family reflect on his mistakes he made during the interwar years.
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war film
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