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Guys and Dolls (1955)

★ 6.5 · 252 ratings on TMDB

It's a living breathing doll of a musical!

Guys and Dolls poster★ 6.5

In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.

DirectorJoseph L. Mankiewicz
CastB.S. Pully, Danny Dayton, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons, Johnny Silver, Marlon Brando
GenresComedy, Crime, Romance
The emergence reading

Guys and Dolls keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

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