
Nightfall(1956)
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.



Errol Flynn
Ned Sherwood

Pedro Armendáriz
Col. Mastegui (as Pedro Armendariz)

Rossana Rory
'Fina' Ferrer

Gia Scala
Anita Ferrer

Jacques Aubuchon
Miguel Collada

Sandro Giglio
Armando Ferrer
Charles Todd
U.S. Treasury Agent Griswold
Francisco Canero
Police Doctor (as Dr. Francisco Canero)
Louis Oquendo
Detective (as Luis Oquendo)
Guillermo Álvarez Guedes
Casino Manager
The Big Boodle is a crime, thriller film released in 1957. Directed by Richard Wilson, it stars Errol Flynn, Pedro Armendáriz, Rossana Rory. Tough guy fights gangsters and counterfeiters in pre-Castro Cuba.
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