The Desperate Hours

A reign of violence sweeps the screen
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Format:  DVD-R
item number:  72Q69
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: March 3, 2020
  • Originally Released: 1955
  • Label: Paramount

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User Ratings: 2,784
Rating: C+ -- An aged fiftysomething Humphrey Bogart is in his element as the snarling desperate fugitive, a role played on Broadway by the much younger Paul Newman. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Jun 29, 2008
...Compelling in its portrayal of police methodology; March and Bogart are at their peak...
USA Today
Aug 4, 1989
Rating: 4/5 -- Solid version of the play with strong cast.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Aug 19, 2004
William Wyler's masterly filming of the Joseph Hayes thriller makes most of the earlier versions look like minor-league efforts. Fredric March, as the beleaguered father, gives one of the year's finest acting performances. Full Review
Maclean's Magazine
Oct 24, 2019
Rating: B -- William Wyler's taut direction elevates this thriller, which stars Bogart in his last screen role and Fredric March; far superior to the 1991 remake. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Feb 2, 2013

Product Description:

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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  • Sales Rank: 23,795
  • UPC: 032429336583
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