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Second Chance is a american film of genre Drama directed by Rudolph Maté released in USA on 18 july 1953 with Robert Mitchum
Second Chance (1953)
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Add to a movie listSecond Chance is a 1953 American color thriller, directed by Rudolph Maté. The picture, shot on location in Mexico in 3-Dimension, features Robert Mitchum, Linda Darnell, and Jack Palance. It is notable as the first RKO film produced in 3D.
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A mob bookkeeper (played by Milburn Stone) is confronted, shot, and killed by the utterly ruthless hitman Cappy Gordon (Jack Palance), under orders from the notorious gangster Vic Spilato, who is currently under investigation by the U.S. Senate. Cappy then heads for San Cristóbal, a bustling town in an unspecified Latin American country, with plans to deliver a similar fate to Spilato's estranged girlfriend, the singer Clare Shepperd (Linda Darnell), who is trying to escape her past connections with Spilato.Actors
Robert Mitchum
(Russ Lambert)
Jack Palance
(Cappy Gordon)
Linda Darnell
(Clare Shepperd, alias Clare Sinclair)
Roy Roberts
(Charley Malloy)
Dan Seymour
(Felipe)
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