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Born to Kill (released in the U.K. as Lady of Deceit and in Australia as Deadlier Than the Male) is a 1947 RKO Pictures American film noir starring Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor and Walter Slezak with Esther Howard, Elisha Cook Jr., and Audrey Long in supporting roles.
Born to Kill: Directed by Robert Wise. With Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak, Phillip Terry. A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with the hotheaded murderer romancing her foster sister.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Robert Wise
- 1947-05-03
Born to Kill? is a British true crime television series, made by Twofour Productions. [1][2] Each episode is an in-depth look at the childhood, and formative years of serial killers in an attempt to find out whether the individuals were born killers, or created by the environments they found themselves in. [3] A book to accompany the ...
- True Crime Documentary
Drifter Sam Wilde (Lawrence Tierney) murders a Reno, Nev., boardinghouse owner and her boyfriend in a fit of jealousy. Tenant Helen Brent (Claire Trevor)...
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- Lawrence Tierney
- Robert Wise
A dark, racy, cynical and noirish crime melodrama about a homicidal maniac and a promiscuous socialite. See the film scenes, descriptions, screenshots and themes of this classic movie based on James Gunn's novel.
I n Robert Wise’s Born to Kill, Sam Wilde (Lawrence Tierney) and Helen Brent (Claire Trevor) get so turned on in each other’s arms as they recount in gruesome detail the two corpses of his victims that it’s a wonder this perverse film made it past the Production Code.
Sam Wilde (Lawrence Tierney) is the murderer and has committed the crime out of a jealous drive - one of the bodies was his girl friend Laury Palmer (Isabel Jewell) and the other a new man she was dating.
