The Beast Must Die (1952 film)

The Beast Must Die
Directed by	Román Viñoly Barreto
Produced by	Laura Hidalgo Román Viñoly Barreto
Written by	Narciso Ibáñez Menta Román Viñoly Barreto
Starring	Guillermo Battaglia Narciso Ibáñez Menta Warly Ceriani
Music by	Silvio Vernazza
Cinematography	Alberto Etchebehere
Edited by	José Serra
Release dates	28 May 1952
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Argentina
Language	Spanish

The Beast Must Die (Spanish: La bestia debe morir) is a 1952 Argentine thriller film, which is directed by Román Viñoly Barreto and stars Guillermo Battaglia, Narciso Ibáñez Menta and Warly Ceriani.^[1] It based on the novel The Beast must Die by Irish poet Nicholas Blake.

Plot

A widowed children's author lives quietly with his nine-year-old son, this is suddenly hit by a car and dies the driver fled undetected. Police investigators in the case now live in the files, but Charles believes he has detected in the accident, the television actress, she falls in love with him and a series of disastrous complications take its course - contrary to a dramatic end.

Cast

• Narciso Ibáñez Menta
• Laura Hidalgo
• Guillermo Battaglia
• Milagros de la Vega
• Nathán Pinzón
• Ernesto Bianco
• Gloria Ferrandiz
• Beba Bidart
• Josefa Goldar
• Jesús Pampín as Inspector
• Amalia Bernabé
• Humberto Balado
• Ricardo Argemí
• Eduardo Moyano
• Warly Ceriani
• Osvaldo Bruzzi
• Carlos Cotto
• Ángel Eleta
• Marcelo Lavalle as Asistente de filmación
• Rafael Salvatore as Hombre en bar
• Enrique Talión

References

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

External links

• La bestia debe morir at the Internet Movie Database