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Bookmark this pageThree Hours to Kill (1954)
Director: Alfred L Werker
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From Time Out Film Guide
A superior B-picture from the last years of Werker's 30-plus years in the business, a catalogue of routine assignments broken by highlights including The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939), He Walked by Night (1949), the prototype serial-killer film noir, and a string of interesting minor Westerns from the '50s. Andrews plays a gunslinger accused of murdering his fiancée's brother and all but pulled to pieces by a small town lynch mob including many of his so-called friends. He's back in town now and wants to track down the real killer. The film neatly slots together the dual time frames and generates a strong sense of bitterness at the speed with which Andrews feels himself betrayed.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: Alfred L Werker
Producer: Harry Joe Brown
Cast: Dana Andrews, Donna Reed, Dianne Foster, Stephen Elliott, Richard Coogan, Lawrence Hugo full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 77 mins
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