Fourteen Hours (1951)

Directed by

Henry Hathaway

Genre

drama film, film noir

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 52 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A police officer spends hours trying to coax a distressed man off a hotel ledge. The crowd below watches and reacts as the standoff unfolds.

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What happens

Fourteen Hours is a 1951 American drama directed by Henry Hathaway that tells the story of a New York City police officer trying to stop a despondent man from jumping to his death from the 15th floor of a hotel. The film stars Richard Basehart, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes and Debra Paget. It also marks the screen debut of Grace Kelly and Jeffrey Hunter, who appear in small roles. The screenplay was written by John Paxton based on an article by Joel Sayre in The New Yorker describing the 1938 suicide of John William Warde. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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