The Desperate Hours (1955)
A reign of violence sweeps the screen.
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
- Date of release
- 1955-10-05
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (191)
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Genres
- Crime, Thriller
- Director
- William Wyler
Casting
- Humphrey Bogart — Glenn Griffin
- Fredric March — Daniel C. Hilliard
- Arthur Kennedy — Deputy Sheriff Jesse Bard
- Martha Scott — Eleanor 'Ellie' Hilliard
- Dewey Martin — Hal Griffin
- Gig Young — Chuck Wright
- Mary Murphy — Cynthia 'Cindy' Hilliard
- Richard Eyer — Ralph Hilliard
- Robert Middleton — Sam Kobish
- Bert Freed — Tom Winston
- Ray Collins — Sheriff Masters
- Whit Bissell — FBI Agent Carson
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