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Never Love a Stranger is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 22 june 1958 with John Drew Barrymore
Never Love a Stranger (1958)
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Add to a movie listNever Love A Stranger is a 1958 crime and gangster film that is based on Harold Robbins' 1948 debut novel with the same title. The film was shot in black and white starring John Drew Barrymore and Robert Bray, and featuring a young Steve McQueen.
The noir film is about Frankie Kane (Barrymore) who is brought up in a Catholic orphanage. He befriends a Jewish law student named Martin Cabell (McQueen) and becomes romantically involved with Cabell's sister Julie (Milan). Kane learns later that he is also Jewish, and when told he will be removed from the orphanage and moved to a Jewish home he runs away and turns to a life of crime. Later, after joining a major crime syndicate, he reconnects with Julie, finally deciding to join Martin, now a District Attorney in shutting down the syndicate.
Actors
John Drew Barrymore
(Francis 'Frankie' Kane)
Steve McQueen
(Martin Cabell)
Robert Bray
('Silk' Fennelli)
Fiery Lita Milan
(Julie)
Richard Bright
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