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Nobody Lives Forever is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jean Negulesco released in USA on 1 november 1946 with John Garfield
Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
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Add to a movie listNobody Lives Forever is a 1946 black-and-white crime film noir directed by Jean Negulesco and based on the novel I Wasn't Born Yesterday by W.R. Burnett. It starred John Garfield and Geraldine Fitzgerald.
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Former conman Nick Blake (Garfield), a soldier returning to New York City after World War II, looks up his old girlfriend Toni Blackburn (Faye Emerson) to get the money she has been holding for him while he was in the army. Toni claims that she lost the money investing in a nightclub before selling it to Chet King (Robert Shayne), who employs her there now as a singer. Nick has discovered Toni's affair with King, however, and gets his money back.Actors
John Garfield
(Nick Blake)
Geraldine Fitzgerald
(Gladys Halvorsen)
Walter Brennan
(Pop Gruber)
Faye Emerson
(Toni Blackburn)
George Coulouris
(Doc Ganson)
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