Fourteen Hours

August 28th, 2008



Fourteen Hours

Category: Film-Noir
All Genres: Film-Noir, Thriller, Drama
Release Year: 1951
Country: USA
Runtime: 92
Rating: 9 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Henry Hathaway
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
  • A new element in screen suspense

  • Writing by: John Paxton - (screenplay)
    Joel Sayre - (story)

    Produced by: Sol C. Siegel - producer

    Cast: Paul Douglas - Police Ofcr. Charlie Dunnigan
    Richard Basehart - Robert Cosick
    Barbara Bel Geddes - Virginia Foster
    Debra Paget - Ruth
    Agnes Moorehead - Christine Hill Cosick
    Robert Keith - Paul E. Cosick
    Howard Da Silva - Deputy Police Chief Moskar (as Howard da Silva)
    Jeffrey Hunter - Danny Klempner
    Martin Gabel - Dr. Strauss
    Grace Kelly - Mrs. Louise Ann Fuller
    Frank Faylen - Walter, room service waiter

    Music: Alfred Newman
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    Plot Outline: An unhappy man threatens suicide by standing on the ledge of a high-rise building for 14 hours.
    Plot: A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of that.

    Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    Whiteness - Herman Melville

    Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Continuity: There is a serious anomaly about 47 minutes into the film. The POWs transport, rather ancient and decrepit old wooden railway box-cars with no windows, suddenly change, in a cut, into comfortable looking main-line passenger coaches with windows before buy acomplia reverting, in another cut, to the ancient wooden box cars.

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