The Beast Must Die (1952 film)

The Beast Must Die
Directed byRomán Viñoly Barreto
Written byNarciso Ibáñez Menta
Román Viñoly Barreto
Based onThe Beast Must Die by Cecil Day-Lewis
Produced byLaura Hidalgo
Román Viñoly Barreto
StarringGuillermo Battaglia
Narciso Ibáñez Menta
Warly Ceriani
CinematographyAlberto Etchebehere
Edited byJosé Serra
Music bySilvio Vernazza
Production
company
Distributed byArgentina Sono Film
Release date
  • 28 May 1952 (1952-05-28)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

The Beast Must Die (Spanish: La bestia debe morir) is a 1952 Argentine thriller film directed by Román Viñoly Barreto and starring Laura Hidalgo Guillermo Battaglia and Narciso Ibáñez Menta.[1] It based on the 1938 novel The Beast Must Die by Irish writer Cecil Day-Lewis, part of his series featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways.

Plot

Laura Hidalgo and Narciso Ibáñez Menta

A writer of murder novels adopts a new identity to track down the hit-and-run driver who killed his son. Along the way he falls in love with a beautiful film star, and a series of disastrous complications take their course.

Cast

References

  1. ^ "La bestia debe morir" (in Spanish). Cinenacional.com. Retrieved 17 January 2014.