The Desperate Hours
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
Description:Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when Jean becomes the victim of an elderly, and extremely powerful, paedophile. The film was neither a box office nor a critical success, it garnered criticism for breaking a significant public taboo.
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Actor:Patrick Allen, Gwen Watford, Janina Faye, Felix Aylmer, Niall MacGinnis, Michael Gwynn, Alison Leggatt, Bill Nagy, MacDonald Parke, Estelle Brody, Robert Arden, Frances Green, Budd Knapp, Helen Horton, Gaylord Cavallaro, Vera Cook, James Dyrenforth, Hazel Jennings, Cal McCord, Sheila Robins, Larry O'Connor, Shirley Butler, Jack Lynn, John Bloomfield, Sonia Fox,
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Release:1960-03-04
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