Three Hours to Kill

Three Hours to Kill is a 1954 American Western film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Dana Andrews and Donna Reed.[1]

Three Hours to Kill
Directed byAlfred L. Werker
Produced byHarry Joe Brown
Written byRichard Alan Simmons
Roy Huggins
Maxwell Shane
Based ona story by Alex Gottlieb
StarringDana Andrews
Donna Reed
Music byPaul Sawtell
CinematographyCharles Lawton Jr.
Edited byGene Havlick
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Columbia Pictures
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • September 3, 1954 (1954-09-03) (New York City)
  • November 4, 1954 (1954-11-04) (United States)
Running time
77 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

It inspired the 1956 Roger Corman film Gunslinger.[2]

Plot

Jim Guthrie (Dana Andrews) returns to town three years after being falsely accused of murdering Carter Mastin (Richard Webb). Jim finds that his old friend Ben East (Stephen Elliott) is now the sheriff. In a flashback, Jim recounts his near-lynching by a mob convinced he had shot Carter in the back. Laurie (Donna Reed), Carter's sister, who was planning on marrying Jim, disrupts the lynching, and Jim narrowly escapes. He still bears a neck scar from his ordeal. Ben gives Jim three hours to find the true killer. Through confrontations with several of the men who had been eager to hang him, Jim is led to the guilty man.

Cast

References
  1. New York Times review accessed 20 April 2014
  2. Aaron W. Graham, 'Little Shop of Genres: An interview with Charles B. Griffith', Senses of Cinema, 15 April, 2005 accessed 25 June 2012


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