The Desperate Hours (1955)
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
- Released
- 1955-10-05
- Genres
- Crime, Thriller
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Joseph Hayes, William Wyler
- TMDB rating
- 7.1/10 from 193 votes
Cast
- Humphrey Bogart as Glenn Griffin
- Fredric March as Daniel C. Hilliard
- Arthur Kennedy as Deputy Sheriff Jesse Bard
- Martha Scott as Eleanor 'Ellie' Hilliard
- Dewey Martin as Hal Griffin
- Gig Young as Chuck Wright
- Mary Murphy as Cynthia 'Cindy' Hilliard
- Richard Eyer as Ralph Hilliard
- Robert Middleton as Sam Kobish
- Bert Freed as Tom Winston
- Ray Collins as Sheriff Masters
- Whit Bissell as FBI Agent Carson