The Desperate Hours

1955

Action / Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller

11
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 88% · 8 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 78% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 11879 11.9K

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Plot summary

Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.

Director

William Wyler Photo
William Wyler

Top cast

Walter Baldwin Photo
Walter Baldwin as George Patterson
Ray Teal Photo
Ray Teal as State Police Lt. Fredericks
Humphrey Bogart Photo
Humphrey Bogart as Glenn Griffin
Pat Flaherty Photo
Pat Flaherty as Dutch
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
1.01 GB
1280*720
English 2.0
Approved
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 52 min
Seeds 2
1.87 GB
1918*1078
English 2.0
Approved
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 52 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Steve D 6 / 10

Unpleasant but well done

Unpleasant but well done.
Reviewed by princeofwaldo T 4 / 10

Features a very old and tired Humphrey Bogart

Features a very old and tired Humphrey Bogart. Unique for the setting, only Indiana film noir I am aware of though Cagney probably shot some gangster movies set in Indiana. The scene with Bogart's brother in the diner towards the end was exceptionally well done, but much of the rest dragged on forever. At 113 minutes there just wasn't enough story to keep it moving. Could have just as easily been shot in the standard 76 minute film noir "B" movie length, maybe even shorter than that. But probably the biggest complaint concerns the shoot-out near the end. The cops surround the house armed with Thompson submachine guns, yet when they finally open up on the villians, the sound track is of a single Browning 50 caliber! At first I laughed, but then decided it was a pretty accurate proxy for how bad this movie is.
Reviewed by Ronald H 8 / 10

The best home invasion movie ever made

The best home invasion movie ever made.
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