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Valerie (1957)

82 min · Drama, Forensic, Western, Western film

Popularity2.5/5
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Directors

Gerd Oswald

Cast

Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel, Peter Walker, John Wengraf, Iphigenie Castiglioni, Jered Barclay, Robert Adler, Tommy McKee, Darryl Duran

The story

Rancher John Garth is arrested for critically wounding his wife Valerie and killing her parents. During Garth's trial, contradictory flashback sequences are depicted.

Catalogue themes and tags

1860s, Accusal, Attempted Murder, Beweismaterial, Court, Defendant, Ermordung, Prozess, Sentence, Sichtweise, Suspicion of Murder, US-Amerikanerin, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Western

Genres

Drama, Forensic, Western, Western film
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