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The Gentleman from Nowhere is a american film of genre Drama directed by William Castle released in USA on 9 september 1948 with Warner Baxter
The Gentleman from Nowhere (1948)
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Add to a movie listThe Gentleman from Nowhere is a 1948 American crime-drama film directed by William Castle.
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Warner Baxter plays a security guard, wounded in a robbery of furs, who arouses the suspicions of an insurance investigator. The guard may or may not be a chemist who's been missing for seven years, declared dead, and whose widow collected $200,000 on his insurance policy.Actors
Warner Baxter
(Earl Donovan / Robert Ashton)
Fay Baker
(Catherine Ashton)
Luis van Rooten
(F.B. Barton)
Charles Lane
(Fenmore)
Wilton Graff
(Larry Hendricks)
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