
16 Nov 1949

Wicked City
A Canadian sailor becomes a fugitive for love after a night with a woman in Marseille.
Father lost his wedding ring in the ocean once. Like all the sailors, he’d take it from his finger to put on a neck chain, not to lose the finger as the net went out.
Narrator
Father
Aunt
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