The Exterminating Angel
May 16 1962
•2h 33m
•Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.
Cast
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Silvia Pinal
Leticia 'La Valkiria'
Jacqueline Andere
Alicia Roc
Claudio Brook
Butler Julio
Enrique Rambal
Edmundo Nóbile
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