Word: debra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Primer. In Lille, France, Roger Debra-bandere, charged with stealing his 29th automobile since November, explained to police that he "just wanted to learn how to drive...
...hard spinster nurse (Betty Garde) into criminal complicity, endangers the life of a trusting floozy (Shelley Winters), lands a pathetic doctor (Konstantin Shayne) in trouble with the law, assiduously corrupts his younger brother (Tommy Cook), and does his best to exploit the emotions of the one decent girl (Debra Paget) he has ever known. All this heelish behavior is shown to be worse than mere lawbreaking, and all of it is shown to be part & parcel of a lawbreaker's mentality. The movies seldom attempt so much, and seldom carry it out with such knowing attention to character...