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Death Of A Scoundrel (1956) - He Left Strict Orders

The opening, and little work done by the star George Sanders, as panicked Bridget (Yvonne De Carlo) overcomes the butler (Justice Watson), and finds the plot, in Death Of A Scoundrel, 1956, which RKO made clear was not about the life of the well-known fugitive financier Serge Rubinstein.

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