Alias Mr. Twilight (1946)

Director
John Sturges

Main cast
Michael Duane; Trudy Marshall; Lloyd Corrigan; Rosalind Ivan; Al Bridge

Genres
Crime, Drama

Description
Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter (Gigi Perreau) with the simple luxuries of life, yet has no qualms when working a racket devised to relieve his victims of their property. Trudy Marshall is the governess of the granddaughter, and is in love with a detective (Michael Duane) who is about to expose the old man's unsuspected activities.


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