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Stage Fright
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About 1950 film by Alfred Hitchcock
Genres film noir, crime, thriller, crime thriller, flashback
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Written by Alma Reville, Ranald MacDougall
Starring Marlene Dietrich, Alfred Hitchcock, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd, Pat Hitchcock, Sybil Thorndike, Michael Wilding, André Morell
Music Leighton Lucas
Runtime 105 min
Country United Kingdom
Links TMDB · IMDb · Letterboxd · Wikipedia · Wikidata
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