The Desperate Hours (1955)






It begins as an ordinary day for the Hilliard family in their Indianapolis home. Eleanor Hilliard gets her family off after breakfast and turns on the radio. She pays little attention to a news broadcast about the escape of three violent criminals from prison, until they walk in on her.


Film programs

Illustrierte Film Bühne nr. 3161

Books with substantial mentioning of The Desperate Hours

Clifford McCarty
Bogey, The Films of Humphrey Bogart
New York, NY, 1965

Books with an entry on The Desperate Hours

Michael F. Keaney
Film Noir Guide, 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003

Alan G. Fetrow
Feature Films, 1950 - 1959, a United States Filmography
Jefferson, NC, 1999