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Fourteen Hours

Fourteen Hours

7,3 /10 (53 Votes)
1951 EN 92 min

Overview

A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.

Release date

01/04/1951

Votes

53

Popularity

1.9

A new element in screen suspense

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

92 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2025-01-05

⭐ 7

When some lady lets out an almighty yell, local traffic cop "Dunnigan" (Paul Douglas) looks up and espies a gent standing on a window ledge of an hotel some fifteen stories up. He races up to the man's room and what ensues for the next ninety-odd minutes sees him trying to understand just why the young "Robert" (Richard Basehart) is about to take a tumble. Needless to say, both men are nervous, but the cop decides that he has to work on establishing trust and that's the anchor we need too as his mother (Agnes Moorehead), father (Robert Keith) and ex-fiancée (Barbara Bel Geddes) all turn up and…

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