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style, strikes me as a dilettante effort at movie making. The boys seem to have gotten hold of a camera and decided to play around with it. This is too bad, because they also chose a serious subject—the spreading of racial intolerance—and then muddled it up almost hopelessly."
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408:Robert Noe as Waldron
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946:An Honourable Murder
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170:1949-05-28
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