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Taste of Excitement is a British film of genre Drama directed by Don Sharp with David Buck
Taste of Excitement (1969)
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Add to a movie listTaste of Excitement is a 1970 British mystery film directed by Don Sharp.
It's US title was Why Would Anyone Want to Kill a Nice Girl Like You?
Synopsis
A series of attempts are made on the life of a young woman.Actors
David Buck
(Paul Hedley)
Peter Vaughan
(Inspector Malling)
Paul Hubschmid
(Herr Beiber)
Sophie Hardy
(Michela)
Kay Walsh
(Miss Barrow)
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