King of Hearts
Dec 21, 1966 | IMDB 6.9
102 min Watch NowComedy, Drama, War
An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.
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