Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
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Genre : Drama, Romance
Runtime : 1H 48M
Director : Angela Robinson
Synopsis
The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941.
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