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Where There's Life is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Sidney Lanfield released in USA on 21 november 1947 with Bob Hope
Where There's Life (1947)
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Add to a movie listWhere There's Life is a 1947 comedy film. The film's title derives from a line in Don Quixote ("Where there's life, there's hope", a play on the name of its star, Bob Hope).
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Hope plays American radio announcer who finds out he is the new king of "Barovia", although a secret society called the Mordia, which assassinated the previous ruler, has other ideas.Actors
Bob Hope
(Michael Joseph Valentine)
Signe Hasso
(Gen. Katrina Grimovitch)
William Bendix
(Victor O'Brien)
George Coulouris
(Prime Minister Krivoc)
Victor Varconi
(Finance Minister Zavitch)
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