Three Hours to Kill

Three Hours to Kill
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Produced by Harry Joe Brown
Written by Richard Alan Simmons
Roy Huggins
Maxwell Shane
Based on a story by Alex Gottlieb
Starring Dana Andrews
Donna Reed
Music by Paul Sawtell
Cinematography Charles Lawton Jr.
Edited by Gene Havlick
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release dates
  • September 3, 1954 (1954-09-03)
Running time
77 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Three Hours to Kill is a 1954 American Western film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Dana Andrews and Donna Reed.[1]

It inspired the 1956 Roger Corman film Gunslinger.[2]

Plot

Jim Guthrie (Dana Andrews) returns to town three years after being falsely accused of murdering Carter Mastin (Richard Webb). Jim finds that his old friend Ben East (Stephen Elliott) is now the sheriff. In a flashback, Jim recounts his near-lynching by a mob convinced he had shot Carter in the back. Laurie (Donna Reed), Carter's sister, who was planning on marrying Jim, disrupts the lynching, and Jim narrowly escapes. He still bears a neck scar from his ordeal. Ben gives Jim three hours to find the true killer. Through confrontations with several of the men who had been eager to hang him, Jim is led to the guilty man.

Cast

References

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