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The Great Impostor is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Mulligan released in USA on 1 february 1961 with Tony Curtis
The Great Impostor (1960)
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The Great Impostor is a 1961 movie based on the true story of an impostor named Ferdinand Waldo Demara.
Loosely based on Robert Crichton's 1959 biography of the same name, it stars Tony Curtis in the title role, directed by Robert Mulligan.
The film only loosely follows Demara's real-life exploits, and is much lighter in tone than the book on which it is based.
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As he is arrested by the Coast Guard on an island in New England, a man born as Ferdinand Waldo Demara but known by many other identities recalls the events that brought him to this point.Actors
Tony Curtis
(Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. / Martin Donner / Dr. Gilbert / Ben. W. Stone / Dr. Joseph Mornay / Robert Boyd Hammnd)
Frank Gorshin
(Barney)
Gary Merrill
(Pa Demara)
Edmond O'Brien
(Capt. Glover - HMCS Cayuga)
Arthur O'Connell
(Warden J.B. Chandler)
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