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Stolen Hours (1963)

Stolen Hours poster
Directed by
Daniel Petrie
Genre
drama film, melodrama
Country
United Kingdom, United States
Runtime
1h 37m
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A socialite discovers she has a brain tumor and falls in love with a doctor who is a colleague of her surgeon. The story is set in England and follows her romance as she faces her illness.

melodramaticemotionalsentimentalromanticbittersweetupbeatclassicsoapy

What happens

Stolen Hours is a 1963 British-American drama film directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Susan Hayward as a socialite with a brain tumor who falls in love with her surgeon's colleague. The film also stars Michael Craig, Edward Judd and Diane Baker. The film is a remake of the 1939 Bette Davis film Dark Victory (1939), with Hayward in Davis's role. The time period was updated and the setting changed to England. It was shot at Shepperton Studios and on location around Britain, including at Polruan in Cornwall. The film's American title is Summer Flight. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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