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Better a Widow(1968)
Status: Released
Date: 1968-10-08
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Time: 1h 45m
Overview:
Tom Proby is a representative from a British engineering firm sent to Sicily to convince the landowners (all in the Mafia) to allow his company to build an oil refinery on some waterfront real estate. Proby talks to the mob bosses about the project, but disagreements between different bosses complicate his efforts.
Languages: Italian.
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Ultra Film
Movie: Better a Widow
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Virna Lisi
Rosa Minniti
Peter McEnery
Tom Proby
Gabriele Ferzetti
Don Calogero Minniti
Jean Servais
Baron Misceni
Agnès Spaak
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Nino Terzo
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Carla Calò
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Roy Bosier
Bruno Lauzi
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