Victory (1940)

Director
John Cromwell

Main cast
Fredric March; Betty Field; Cedric Hardwicke; Jerome Cowan; Sig Ruman

Genres
Adventure

Description
A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.


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