Five Days (1954)

Original title

Paid to Kill

Directed by

Montgomery Tully

Genre

drama film, film noir, crime film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 15m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man gets caught up in a murder plot that leads to a five-day deadline. He must figure out who is behind the scheme and how to survive.

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What happens

Five Days (U.S. title: Paid to Kill) is a 1954 British second feature ('B') film noir directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Dane Clark, Paul Carpenter and Thea Gregory. It was written by Paul Tabori and produced by Anthony Hinds for Hammer Film Productions. Jimmy Sangster was assistant director, J. Elder Wills was art director, and Phil Leakey handled Makeup. Dane Clark had finished starring in Hammer's Murder by Proxy and was supposed to return to the US to star in some Westerns, but Anthony Hinds persuaded him to stay in England to star in Five Days. Filming ran from Nov. 9, 1953 to Dec. 16, 1953, and it was trade shown on May 12, 1954 at the Hammer Theatre. It was released in the United States by Lippert Pictures. The US print (retitled Paid to Kill) ran 3 minutes longer than the British print. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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