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Yield to the Night
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Ada and the Doc
Duration: 0 h 15 m | 2023
In 1927 southern Louisiana, subversive housewife Ada LeBoeuf is put on trial alongside her alleged lover for the grisly murder of her husband in one of the most explosive sex-murder trials ever reported.
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