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One Hour to Live (1939)

One Hour to Live poster
Directed by
Harold D. Schuster
Genre
crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 01m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A detective has one hour to solve a crime before time runs out. He races against the clock to find the truth before someone dies.

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What happens

One Hour to Live is a 1939 American crime film directed by Harold D. Schuster and written by Roy Chanslor. The film stars Charles Bickford, Doris Nolan, John Litel, Samuel S. Hinds, Paul Guilfoyle and Robert Emmett Keane. The film was released on November 10, 1939, by Universal Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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