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Stiletto is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Bernard L. Kowalski released in USA on 30 july 1969 with Alex Cord
Stiletto (1969)
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Add to a movie listStiletto is a 1969 American crime film directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and starring Alex Cord, Britt Ekland and Patrick O'Neal. Based on the novel Stiletto (1960) by Harold Robbins.
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A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decides it's time to retire from that life, he finds that his former employers don't like the idea that someone who knows so much about them won't be under their control anymore, and decide to send their own hitmen to eliminate him.Actors
Alex Cord
(Count Cesare Cardinali)
Britt Ekland
(Illeana)
Patrick O'Neal
(George Baker)
Joseph Wiseman
(Emilio Matteo)
Barbara McNair
(Ahn Dessie)
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