Split Second (1953)
Steel Your Nerves! Here's excitement that will smash them!
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test.
- Date of release
- 1953-05-02
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (32)
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Thriller, Crime
- Director
- Dick Powell
Casting
- Stephen McNally — Sam Hurley
- Alexis Smith — Kay Garven
- Jan Sterling — Dorothy 'Dottie' Vale
- Keith Andes — Larry Fleming
- Arthur Hunnicutt — Asa Tremaine
- Paul Kelly — Bart Moore
- Robert Paige — Arthur Ashton
- Richard Egan — Doctor Neal Garven
- Frank De Kova — Dummy
Interesting facts
Split Second is a 1953 American film noir thriller directed by Dick Powell about escaped convicts and their hostages holed up in a ghost town, unaware of the grave danger they are in. It features Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling, and Keith Andes. It was the only film put into production by the consortium that took over RKO Pictures in late 1952 before previous owner Howard Hughes resumed control of the company.
Production
Victor Mature and Jane Russell were originally intended as the leads.
Location shooting took place in the Mojave Desert.
Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.
Recommended
- Pickup on South Street 1953 · ★ 7.4
- Maniac 1963 · ★ 6.2
- They Live by Night 1949 · ★ 6.8
- Nightfall 1956 · ★ 6.9
- Black Widow 1987 · ★ 6.2
- The Blue Lamp 1950 · ★ 6.6
- Conflict 1945 · ★ 6.7
- He Ran All the Way 1951 · ★ 7.2
- Framed 1947 · ★ 6.5
- The Locket 1946 · ★ 6.3
- Black Angel 1946 · ★ 6.1
- The Blue Gardenia 1953 · ★ 6.5