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Man on Fire

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Bitter over their divorce, a wealthy businessman prevents his ex-wife from seeing their child. She then takes him to custody court and a judge tries to determine what will be best for the child.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1957-08-22

Runtime: 95 mins

Director: Ranald MacDougall

Spoken language: English

Genres: Drama

Original title: Man on Fire

Production Companies: Bing Crosby Productions, Sol C. Siegel Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Production Countries: United States of America

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