Guillotine (1949)

Guillotine: Directed by Anthony Mann. With Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Richard Hart, Arlene Dahl. Robespierrre, a powerful figure in the French revolution, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked for the guillotine.

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