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Bookmark this pageFourteen Hours (1951)
Director: Henry Hathaway
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From Time Out Film Guide
Back in 1938, John Warde perched on a ledge 17 floors up a skyscraper, and, for 14 hours, threatened to jump. This vertiginous melodrama recounts the event in professional low-key journalistic fashion. As in Ace in the Hole, the emphasis is as much on the reaction of bystanders as on the plight of the would-be suicide. Cab-drivers take bets, while cops and psychiatrists try to talk him down. Grace Kelly, in her debut, appears among the onlookers.Author: GM
Cast & crew
Director: Henry Hathaway
Producer: Sol C Siegel
Cast: Richard Basehart, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Debra Paget, Agnes Moorehead, Robert Keith, Howard da Silva, Jeffrey Hunter, Grace Kelly, Jeff Corey full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 92 mins
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