Directed by:
Mitchell LeisenCinematography:
Theodor SparkuhlComposer:
Heinz RoemheldCast:
Richard Barthelmess, Joe Morrison, Gertrude Michael, Helen Mack, Roscoe Karns, Ray Milland, Henry Travers, Noel Madison, Paul Harvey, Olive Tell, Bodil Rosing, Robert Kent, Alfred Delcambre, Sam Ash (more)Plots(1)
Adapted from Norman Krasna's Broadway hit A Small Miracle, Four Hours to Kill is a multi-plotted effort that can best be described as "Grand Hotel goes to the theater." Richard Barthelmess stars as Tony, a condemned murderer, who is handcuffed to Detective Taft (Charles Wilson) while en route to the death house. Tony breaks loose and heads for the theater, where the man who squealed on him is attending a play. As the killer prepares to rub out the stoolie, the action cuts away to the romance between a hatcheck boy (Joe Morrison) and his girlfriend (Helen Mack), which is complicated by the clerk's allegedly pregnant former love (Dorothy Tree). Another subplot involves unfaithful wife Gertrude Michael and her lover Ray Milland. All the various plotlines are knitted together in the climax, wherein Tony closes in on his intended victim. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Richard Barthelmess
USA
Best movies:
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Way Down East (1920)
The Tingler (1959)
Joe Morrison
USA
Gertrude Michael
USA
Best movies:
Caged (1950)
Flamingo Road (1949)
Cleopatra (1934)
Helen Mack
USA
Best movies:
His Girl Friday (1940)
She (1935)
The Son of Kong (1933)
Roscoe Karns
USA
Best movies:
Beggars of Life (1928)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Wings (1927)
Ray Milland
UK
Best movies:
Dial M for Murder (1954)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Love Story (1970)
Henry Travers
UK
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Edison, the Man (1940)
The Yearling (1946)
Noel Madison
USA
Best movies:
Our Relations (1936)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
'G' Men (1935)
Paul Harvey
USA
Best movies:
Sabrina (1954)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Spellbound (1945)
Olive Tell
USA
Best movies:
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Bodil Rosing
Denmark
Best movies:
Sunrise (1927)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Robert Kent
USA
Best movies:
The Country Girl (1954)
The Phantom Creeps (1949) (TV movie) - a.f.
The Phantom Creeps (1939)
Alfred Delcambre
USA
Sam Ash
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Citizen Kane (1941)
John Howard
USA
Best movies:
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Lost Horizon (1937)
Buck and the Preacher (1972)
Dorothy Tree
USA
Best movies:
It (1927)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Edge of Darkness (1943)
Bess Flowers
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Rear Window (1954)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Sam Harris
Australia
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Charles C. Wilson
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Gertrude Astor
USA
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)