14 Hours (Fourteen Hours) (1951)

7.2	Listal rating
7.1	IMDB rating

Directed by

Henry Hathaway

Starring (View all)

Paul Douglas

Police Ofcr. Charlie Dunnigan

Robert Cosick

Virginia Foster

Ruth

Christine Hill Cosick

Robert Keith

Paul E. Cosick

Howard Da Silva

Deputy Police Chief Moskar

Jeffrey Hunter

Danny Klempner

Written by

John Paxton

(screenplay)

Joel Sayre

(story)

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14 Hours

2 months, 1 week ago at Apr 11 16:46

JxSxPx

Sometimes little known B-movies can unearth some solidly made gems, and 14 Hours is one of those movies. It may not be perfect, but it is highly entertaining, well-acted and smartly written. Roughly 90% of the film is about a man on a ledge threatening to jump and the various efforts to get him back inside. 14 Hours only stumbles when it briefly leaves this main narrative to craft vignettes of the... read more

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Description: Robert Cosick is a desperate young man who has a bad relationship with his parents and thinks his girlfriend doesn't love him. He climbs onto the ledge of a skyscraper in downtown New York and threatens to jump; for the next 14 hours, a policeman tries to talk him down, searching for a way to convince him that life is worth living. ... (more)

Release date : 1 April 1951

Film Noir (3), B&w (2), 1951 (2), Drama (2), Spiritual Cinema (2), Sort (2), Black & White (2), American (2), Attempted Suicide (2), Suicide (2), Thriller (2), 1950s (1), MMG (1), D.T. (1)

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JxSxPx posted a review 2 months, 1 week ago

14 Hours

“Sometimes little known B-movies can unearth some solidly made gems, and 14 Hours is one of those movies. It may not be perfect, but it is highly entertaining, well-acted and smartly written. Roughly 90% of the film is about a man on a ledge threatening to jump and the various efforts to get him back inside. 14 Hours only stumbles when it briefly leaves this main narrative to craft vignettes of the on-lookers experiencing the drama unfold before them.

Grace Kelly and Jeffrey Hunter, in some of their first film roles, are attractive enough to gain attention from the camera, but they add nothing of value to the story besides breaking from it and muting the tension. Hunter is one half of a couple who meets during the chaos on the street and fall in love. Why the filmmakers decided th” read more