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Dust Be My Destiny is a american film of genre Drama directed by Lewis Seiler released in USA on 16 september 1939 with John Garfield
Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 16 september 1939
Length 1h28
Directed by Lewis Seiler
OriginUSA
Themes Prison films
Rating67%
Dust Be My Destiny is a drama film released in 1939. John Garfield stars as a man who gets into trouble after being sentenced to a work farm.
Synopsis
Joe Bell (John Garfield) becomes embittered after he is jailed for 16 months for something he did not do. Later, he gets into a fight with a crook (played by an uncredited Ward Bond) and is sentenced to a work farm for 90 days. There, he becomes friends with Mabel Alden (Priscilla Lane), which displeases Charles Garreth (Stanley Ridges), her stepfather and the farm's foreman. The two men fight, and Joe knocks Garreth out. Panicking, the young couple flee and get married, only to learn that Garreth has died and that Joe is wanted for his murder.Actors
John Garfield
(Joe Bell)
Priscilla Lane
(Mabel Alden)
Alan Hale
(Michael 'Mike' Leonard)
Frank McHugh
(Caruthers)
Billy Halop
(Hank Glenn)
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