The Beast Must Die (1952 film)

The Beast Must Die (Spanish: La bestia debe morir) is a 1952 Argentine thriller film directed by Román Viñoly Barreto and starring Laura Hidalgo Guillermo Battaglia and Narciso Ibáñez Menta. It based on the 1938 novel The Beast Must Die by Irish writer Cecil Day-Lewis, part of his series featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways.

Plot
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 as Felix Lane
 * Laura Hidalgo as 	Linda Lawson
 * Guillermo Battaglia as Jorge Rattery
 * Milagros de la Vega as 	Sra. Rattery
 * Nathán Pinzón as Carpax
 * Ernesto Bianco as Nigel Strangeways
 * Beba Bidart as 	Rhoda Carpax
 * Josefa Goldar as Violeta Rattery
 * Jesús Pampín as Inspector Blount
 * Amalia Bernabé as 	Matilde
 * Gloria Ferrandiz as 	Mujer de la cabaña
 * Humberto Balado as Ronnie Hershey
 * Ricardo Argemí as 	General Dixon
 * Eduardo Moyano as 	Martie Carter
 * Warly Ceriani as 	Guilder
 * Ángel Eleta as 	Bailarín
 * Marcelo Lavalle as Assistante de filmación
 * Rafael Salvatore as Hombre en bar