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Strange Intruder is a american film of genre Drama directed by Irving Rapper released in USA on 2 september 1956 with Edmund Purdom
Strange Intruder (1956)
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Add to a movie listStrange Intruder is a 1956 drama film directed by Irving Rapper and starring Edmund Purdom and Ida Lupino.
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Dying in a Korea prisoner-of-war camp, Adrian Carmichael learns his wife Alice has been unfaithful back home. He makes friend Paul Quentin promise not to let the Carmichaels' children be raised by another man, no matter what.Actors
Edmund Purdom
(Paul Quentin)
Ida Lupino
(Alice Carmichael)
Eric Chase Anderson
Mimi Gibson
(Libby Carmichael)
Carl Benton Reid
(James Carmichael)
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