The Desperate Hours (1955)

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7.6	IMDB rating

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Directed by

William Wyler

Starring (View all)

Humphrey Bogart
Glenn Griffin

Fredric March
Dan C. Hilliard

Arthur Kennedy
Deputy Sheriff Jesse Bard

Martha Scott
Ellie Hilliard

Dewey Martin
Hal Griffin

Gig Young
Chuck Wright

Mary Murphy
Cindy Hilliard

Richard Eyer
Ralphie Hilliard

Written by

Joseph Hayes
(screenplay)

Jay Dratler
contributor to screenplay construction

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3 years, 8 months ago at Apr 25 21:06

fernando

In a way it has aged; in the other hand, its a pioneer of police melodrama, in a situation of laboratory, with hostages and psicocriminals. Characters seem intelligent ans sophisticated in involuntary idiot subplots, then act in a too intelligent way. Bogey and March are impecable.

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Glen, Hal and Sam are three escaped convicts who move in on and terrorize a suburban household.

Release date: 13 February 1956
UPC: 097360550948