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Satan Met a Lady is a american film of genre Drama directed by William Dieterle released in USA on 22 july 1936 with Bette Davis
Satan Met a Lady (1936)
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Add to a movie listSatan Met a Lady is a 1936 American detective film directed by William Dieterle and starring Bette Davis.
The screenplay by Brown Holmes is a loose adaptation of the 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, which was previously filmed five years earlier, Pre-Code, under its original title and would be remade again five years later by director John Huston with Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade.
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Private detective Ted Shane returns to work with his former partner Ames, who is not particularly happy about the situation because his wife Astrid dated Ted before they were wed.Actors
Bette Davis
(Valerie Purvis)
Warren William
(Ted Shane)
Alison Skipworth
(Madame Barabbas)
Arthur Treacher
(Anthony Travers)
Marie Wilson
(Miss Murgatroyd)
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