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Hell Is Sold Out is a film of genre Drama directed by Michael Anderson with Mai Zetterling

Hell Is Sold Out (1951)

Hell Is Sold Out
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Hell is Sold Out is a 1951 British drama film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Mai Zetterling, Herbert Lom and Richard Attenborough.

Synopsis

The French Resistance novelist Domenic Danges returns unexpectedly to find a Swedish girl posing as his widow and has published a novel under his name. A love triangle develops when a fellow prisoner falls in love with Valerie. A woman who publishes a book under the name of a man believed to be long dead.

Actors

Mai Zetterling

(Valerie Martin)Herbert Lom

(Dominic Danges)Richard Attenborough

(Pierre Bonnet)Hermione Baddeley

(Mme. Louise Menstrier)Olaf Pooley

(Cheri, male secretary)
And :
Eric Pohlmann
Kathleen Byron
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