Homicide for Three

Homicide for Three

1948 · 60 min · ★ 5.7 · Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance

While on shore leave to celebrate his first anniversary, Lt. Peter Duluth (Warren Douglas) takes his wife, Iris (Audrey Long), to a Los Angeles hotel but is turned away. When mysterious Colette (Stephanie Bachelor) offers them her suite, the young couple becomes entangled in a murder plot. Aided by two PIs, Peter and Iris find two corpses and are desperate to locate Colette before she becomes the next victim, but the killers are one step ahead.

Directed by George Blair · Written by Bradbury Foote

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Warren Douglas Lt. Peter Duluth
Audrey Long Iris Duluth
Grant Withers Joe Hatch
Lloyd Corrigan Emmanuel Catt
Stephanie Bachelor Collette Rose
George Lynn Bill Daggett
Tala Birell Rita Brown
Joseph Crehan Police Captain
Benny Baker Cabbie
Sid Tomack Cabbie
Patsy Moran Hotel Maid
Dick Elliott Doorman at Atwood Towers

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