Where There's Life | |
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Directed by | Sidney Lanfield |
Screenplay by | Allen Boretz Melville Shavelson |
Story by | Melville Shavelson |
Produced by | Paul Jones |
Starring | Bob Hope Signe Hasso William Bendix George Coulouris |
Cinematography | Charles Lang |
Edited by | Archie Marshek |
Music by | Charles Bradshaw (uncredited) Nathan Van Cleave (uncredited) Victor Young (uncredited) |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $3 million (US rentals) [1] |
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