The Big Frame (1952)
The Lost Hours
Six blacked-out hours that branded him KILLER!
An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into a fight with earlier in the night was murdered.
- Date of release
- 1952-09-01
- TMDB
- 4.5 / 10 (9)
- Runtime
- 1h 7m
- Genres
- Mystery, Drama
- Director
- David MacDonald
Casting
- Mark Stevens — Paul Smith
- Jean Kent — Louise Parker
- Garry Marsh — Insp. Foster
- John Bentley — Clark Sutton
- Jack Lambert — John Parker
- Leslie Perrins — Dr. Derek Morrison
- Dianne Foster — Dianne Wrigley
- Bryan Coleman — Tom Wrigley
- Duncan Lamont — Bristow
- John Horsley — Brown
- John Harvey — Kenneth Peters
- Cyril Smith — Det. Sgt. Roper
Interesting facts
The Lost Hours is a 1952 British second feature ('B') film noir directed by David MacDonald and starring Mark Stevens, Jean Kent and John Bentley. It was written by Steve Fisher and John Gilling. It was produced by Tempean Films which specialised in making second features at the time, and marked Kent's first "descent", as Chibnall and McFarlane put it, into B films after her 1940s stardom. It was released in the United States in 1953 by RKO Pictures.
Production
It was shot at Isleworth Studios and on location around London, with sets designed by the art director Andrew Mazzei.
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