They Won't Believe Me
They Won't Believe Me
They Won't Believe Me
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1947
1h 35m
6.5(50 votes)
Drama
Romance

Overview

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

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