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The Desperate Hours (1955) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jun 10, 2003
Budget $2,388,000
Running Time
1 hour, 52 minutes
Country USA
Studio Paramount
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Other Titles
• An einem Tag wie jeder andere (1955)
• Ore disperate (1955)
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Genre: Thriller, Film-Noir, Drama, Suspense, Hostage, Marriage, Police
Plot: Director William Wyler’s tense crime drama is set in a quiet midwestern town. In the middle of a summer’s day, three escaped convicts--Glen (Humphrey Bogart), his brother Hal (Dewey Martin), and the threatening Sam (Robert Middleton)--blunder into a suburban home. There they confront Eleanor Hilliard (Martha Scott). Soon the rest of Eleanor’s family return--first her accountant husband, Dan (Fredric March), and daughter, Cindy (Mary Murphy), then her young son, Ralphie (Richard Eyer). To the family’s horror, the convicts decide to stay in their home until Glen’s girl arrives with help. The police, led by Deputy Bard (Arthur Kennedy), have lost the trail of the convicts. Everyone waits: the convicts for help, the Hilliards for the convicts to leave, and the police for them to reappear. Then Glen’s girl runs into trouble.Using his trademark long takes and claustrophobically confining most of the action to the beleaguered Hilliards’s home, Wyler and veteran director of photography Lee Garmes create an atmosphere of tension. At first it seems the Hilliards will be rescued if the police discover the whereabouts of the convicts. Then it becomes clear that things will get much worse for the family if the police do arrive.
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William Wyler
Ben-Hur, Roman Holiday, The Best Years of Our Lives |
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The Best Years of Our Lives, Inherit the Wind, Seven Days in May | | | Dewey Martin
The Thing From Another World, Land of the Pharaohs, The Big Sky | Gig Young
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