La Bestia debe morir is a 1952 Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 thriller film, which is directed by Román Viñoly Barreto

Román Viñoly Barreto

Román Viñoly Barreto was a Uruguayan-Argentine film director.-Biography:...

 and stars Guillermo Battaglia

Guillermo Battaglia

Guillermo Battaglia was a prolific Argentine film actor of the classic era of Argentine cinema.Born in Buenos Aires, he began his film career in 1937 in Melodías porteñas. Battaglia starred in over 100 films between then and 1987...

, Narciso Ibáñez Menta

Narciso Ibáñez Menta

Narciso Ibáñez Menta was a Spanish theatre, film, and television actor.Born in Langreo, Asturias, Spain, Menta made his first stage appearance in 1919 at the Teatro La Comedia of Buenos Aires. He worked in both theatre and film in Argentina until 1964, when he returned to Spain and developed a...

 and Warly Ceriani

Warly Ceriani

Warly Ceriani was a classic Argentine actor who appeared in major Argentine films between 1938 and 1959.Ceriani made almost 50 film appearances in Argentina between 1938 and 1959 appearing in films such as the 1942 Julio Irigoyen film Academia El Tango Argentino.-Selected filmography:* La Bestia...

. It based on the novel The Beast must Die by Irish poet Nicholas Blake.

Plot

A widowed children's author lives quietly with his nine year old son, this is suddenly hit by a car and dies the driver fled undetected. Police investigators in the case now live in the files, but Charles believes he has detected in the accident, the television actress, she falls in love with him and a series of disastrous complications take its course - contrary to a dramatic end.

Cast

• Narciso Ibáñez Menta
  Narciso Ibáñez Menta
  Narciso Ibáñez Menta was a Spanish theatre, film, and television actor.Born in Langreo, Asturias, Spain, Menta made his first stage appearance in 1919 at the Teatro La Comedia of Buenos Aires. He worked in both theatre and film in Argentina until 1964, when he returned to Spain and developed a...
  
  
• Laura Hidalgo
• Guillermo Battaglia
  Guillermo Battaglia
  Guillermo Battaglia was a prolific Argentine film actor of the classic era of Argentine cinema.Born in Buenos Aires, he began his film career in 1937 in Melodías porteñas. Battaglia starred in over 100 films between then and 1987...
  
  
• Milagros de la Vega
• Nathán Pinzón
• Ernesto Bianco
• Gloria Ferrandiz
• Beba Bidart
• Josefa Goldar
• Jesús Pampín as Inspector
• Amalia Bernabé
• Humberto Balado
• Ricardo Argemí
• Eduardo Moyano
• Warly Ceriani
  Warly Ceriani
  Warly Ceriani was a classic Argentine actor who appeared in major Argentine films between 1938 and 1959.Ceriani made almost 50 film appearances in Argentina between 1938 and 1959 appearing in films such as the 1942 Julio Irigoyen film Academia El Tango Argentino.-Selected filmography:* La Bestia...
  
  
• Osvaldo Bruzzi
• Carlos Cotto
• Ángel Eleta
• Marcelo Lavalle as Asistente de filmación
• Rafael Salvatore as Hombre en bar
• Enrique Talión

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