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Double Deal is a american film of genre Comedy released in USA on 16 december 1939 with Louis Jourdan
Double Deal (1939)
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Add to a movie listDouble Deal is a 1939 American drama with an all-black cast (a genre at the time called "race films"), written by Arthur Hoerl, produced by George Randol, directed by Arthur Dreifuss and released on the independent states-rights market by Sack Amusement Enterprises and Astor Pictures Corp.
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Two men, Tommy McCoy and Dude Markey, are in love with Nita, a beautiful nightclub singer/dancer. Markey robs a jewelry store and gives the haul to a local gangster. Later, he steals the jewelry from the gangster's safe and frames McCoy for the robbery in the hope that the gangster will kill him, thereby getting rid of his rival for the lovely Nita.Actors
Louis Jourdan
Jeni Le Gon
(Nita)
Shelton Brooks
(Singer in Nightclub Floorshow)
Juanita Moore
(Nightclub Patron)
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