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How To Kill a Playboy

How To Kill a Playboy

1968 · 94 min · ★ 10.0 · Comedy

A wife dissatisfied with her husband's vagrancy asks her father, who lives in Paraíba, for help. He then sends two henchmen to Rio to make his daughter a widow, but she reconciles with her husband and needs to prevent the tragedy. Based on the play by João Bethencourt.

Directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen · Written by José Condé

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