The Hard Life of an Adventurer
A writer of pulp crime novels is drawn into a series of real crimes. This film was one of the first Czech attempts on a genre parody.
A writer of pulp crime novels is drawn into a series of real crimes. This film was one of the first Czech attempts on a genre parody.
Otomar Korbelář
Fred Flok alias Konzul Binder alias Komisar Niklas alias Ing. Benda
Ladislav Pešek
Karel Kryspín alias Charles Crispin
Adina Mandlová
Helena Rohanová
Jaroslav Marvan
Tichý, policejní inspektor
Karel Dostal
Dr. Seidl
Karel Černý
Vladimír Řepa
Karel Hradilák
Rudolf Hrušínský
A writer of pulp crime novels is drawn into a series of real crimes. This film was one of the first Czech attempts on a genre parody.
A stroke of good luck turns lethal for Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie when they are faced with a life-changing decision that brings strange and sinister Pyke Kubic to their doorstep. As Pyke leads Sam and Leslie on a tumultuous adventure through the streets of Chicago, each are pulled deeper and deeper into a desperate spiral of deception and violence – all in the name of money.
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