The Rose and the Jackal
★ 6 · 1990 · 100m · Adventure · TV Movie · Western
Detective Allan Pinkerton, working for the Union, becomes obsessed with Southern socialite Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a spy for the Confederacy.
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