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
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Columbia Pictures
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	September 3, 1954 (New York City); November 4, 1954 (United States);
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

Dana Andrews as Jim Guthrie
Donna Reed as Laurie Mastin
Dianne Foster as Chris Palmer
Stephen Elliott as Sheriff Ben East
Richard Coogan as Niles Hendricks
Laurence Hugo as Marty Lasswell
James Westerfield as Sam Minor
Richard Webb as Carter Mastin
Carolyn Jones as Polly
Charlotte Fletcher as Betty
Whit Bissell as Deke
Francis McDonald as Deputy Vince

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References

New York Times review accessed 20 April 2014
Aaron W. Graham, 'Little Shop of Genres: An interview with Charles B. Griffith', Senses of Cinema, 15 April, 2005 accessed 25 June 2012

External links

Three Hours to Kill at the American Film Institute Catalog
Three Hours to Kill on IMDb
Three Hours to Kill at AllMovie
Three Hours to Kill at the TCM Movie Database

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[1] New York Times review accessed 20 April 2014

[Senses-2] Aaron W. Graham, 'Little Shop of Genres: An interview with Charles B. Griffith', Senses of Cinema, 15 April, 2005 accessed 25 June 2012