Román Viñoly Barreto directed The Beast Must Die (Spanish: La bestia debe morir), a thriller film noir, starring Guillermo Battaglia, Narciso Ibáñez Menta and Warly Ceriani.
It based on the 1938 novel “The Beast Must Die” by Irish writer Nicholas Blake.
A writer of murder novels adopts a new identity to track down the hit-and-run driver who killed his son. Along the way he falls in love with a beautiful film star, and a series of disastrous complications take their course.
Cast
Narciso Ibáñez Menta
Laura Hidalgo
Guillermo Battaglia
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
Osvaldo Bruzzi
Carlos Cotto
Ángel Eleta
Marcelo Lavalle as Asistente de filmación
Rafael Salvatore as Hombre en bar
Enrique Talión
Note:
TCM showed the movie on Oct 23, 2021.
