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The Lucky Star is a canadien film of genre Drama released in USA on 28 may 1982 with Brett Marx
The Lucky Star (1982)
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A young Jewish boy (Marx) who escapes from the traumas of the war-torn Netherlands by living in a fantasy world of American westerns - where good triumphs over evil and the outcast becomes a hero.Actors
Brett Marx
(David Goldberg)
Rod Steiger
(Colonel Gluck)
Louise Fletcher
(Loes Bakker)
Lou Jacobi
(Elia Goldberg)
Jean Gascon
(The Priest)
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