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Two on a Guillotine is a american film of genre Horror directed by William Conrad released in USA on 13 january 1965 with Connie Stevens
Two on a Guillotine (1965)
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Add to a movie listTwo on a Guillotine is a 1965 American horror/thriller film starring Connie Stevens, produced and directed by William Conrad. The screenplay by John Kneubuhl and Henry Slesar is based on a story by Slesar.
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A prologue introduces the audience to John Harley Duquesne, a psychotic magician who accidentally beheads his wife Melinda with a guillotine during a performance. Twenty years later he dies, and his will requires his daughter Cassie (the mirror image of her mother) to spend seven nights in his apparently haunted mansion in order to inherit his estate.Actors
Connie Stevens
(Cassie / Melinda Duquesne)
Dean Jones
(Val Henderson)
Cesar Romero
(John Harley 'Duke' Duquesne)
Parley Baer
(Jules 'Buzzy' Sheridan)
Virginia Gregg
(Dolly Bast)
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