The Beast Must Die (Spanish: La bestia debe morir) is a 1952 Argentine thriller film of the classical era of Argentine cinema, directed by Román Viñoly Barreto and starring Laura Hidalgo Guillermo Battaglia and Narciso Ibáñez Menta.

[1] 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.

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.

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