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Suddenly

195475 minUnited States
Film noirDramaCrime
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Original language
English
This copy runs
76:43
Subtitles
English

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Synopsis

A presidential train is due to stop in a small California town. Men claiming to be federal agents enter a family's hilltop home, whose view gives it strategic importance. The household discovers that the supposed security detail has a very different purpose.

Cast

DirectorsLewis Allen

Inspirations

Richard Sale adapted his story Active Duty into a fictional assassination thriller. The premise uses the practical visibility of a presidential train journey to concentrate a national threat inside one family's home.

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