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List Price: $14.98Amazon.com's Price: $7.49 You Save: $7.49 (50%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9780792187080
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792187083
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 10, 2003
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 11829
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1955
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Bogart plays an escaped con who has nothing to lose. March is a suburban everyman who has everything to lose - his family is held hostage by bogart. As time ticks by the two men sqare off in a battle of wills & cunning that tightens into an unforgettable fear-drenched finale. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 12/30/2003 Starring: Humphrey Bogart Gig Young Run time: 112 minutes Rating: Nr Director: William Wyler
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Humphrey Bogart is at his villainous best in William Wyler's taut home-invasion thriller, The Desperate Hours. Sharply adapted by John Hayes from his own fact-based novel and Broadway play, this marked a slight departure for Wyler, whose celebrated versatility is on ready display as Bogart--leading a panicky trio of escaped convicts--seizes control of a suburban family in the (dis)comfort of their own home. The domestic terror (similarly dramatized in the 1954 potboiler Suddenly) escalates as cautious patriarch Frederic March waits for an opportunity to retaliate, while the police (led by Arthur Kennedy) close in for an ambush. Viewers may recognize the home's exterior from TV's Leave It to Beaver, while its interior gives Wyler a sealed chamber for nail-biting advances and setbacks--and Bogey was rarely better at portraying ruthless, unpredictable menace. Poorly remade in 1990, The Desperate Hours remains a potent precursor to the many similar films (like Panic Room) that followed its enduring example. --Jeff Shannon
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This "edge of your seat" suspense drama is Bogie at his best. I have seen it many times and can always watch it again. Bogie can do evil so well--an evil that you cannot ever completely hate, you always feel a tiny sympathy for his misdirected malcontent as an evil character. The original "suicide by cop" film. Time has shown what a truly terrific actor Humphry Bogart was. We miss you Mr. Bogart.
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A tense film that follows a home invasion and hostage situation. It might be a little dated for some younger watchers, still it has fine performances from Bogart and Fredric March.
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This is a very well done, suspenseful film. Bogart and March are excellent in the leads. What is especially fascinating is that, even though Paramount was the studio, the exteriors of the film were filmed on the Universal lot, and one can clearly see the Hillard's home as the same as the one in Leave it to Beaver. Lots of shots of the Universal lot where Desperate Housewives is filmed now, more than 50 years later.
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What a pair: Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March face to face as mortal enemies. Good vs. evil. We know who will win but we don't know how. The excellent twists and turns keep us forever surprised. Spencer Tracy originally declined the role opposite Bogart because he refused second billing.
All acting is superb, though a bit of overkill with the 2 hysterical women captors. The child actor is a marvelous spunky character who never rose to deserved fame as did other kid actors.
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Unlike many other reviewers, I found this movie TERRIBLE! If it were newly released today, I think people would laugh at it, as I often did during its playing time.
The story is HIGHLY contrived, and, unless you leave your brains somewhere else, you can't help see the countless illogical occurrences in it. These contrivances make the story increasingly unbelievable--so much so that you can't suspend your belief that this is a movie. It's one plot hole after another--characters being forced ... Read More
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