14 Hours (Fox Film Noir)

14 Hours (Fox Film Noir)
by Henry Hathaway

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Actor: Agnes Moorehead, Barbara Bel Geddes, Debra Paget, Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart
Director: Henry Hathaway
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Dubbed)
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

Movie Reviews of 14 Hours (Fox Film Noir)

Movie Review: 14 Hours Fox Film Noir
Summary: 5 Stars

Fourteen Hours is an interesting 1951 film about the efforts of a New York police officer played by Paul Douglas to stop a despondent man Richard Basehart from jumping from a building ledge. The otherwise fictional story was inspired by an actual standoff in New York in 1938 between police and a man attempting suicide, which drew crowds of bystanders and media coverage as hours went by. The film has a happy ending, in which the young man is saved by being caught in nets set up below him. In the actual standoff, New York City Patrolman Charles V. Glasco of Woodhaven, Queens strived in vain to convince John Warde that life was worth living. Glasco pretended to be a bellhop at the Gotham Hotel, and tried to persuade Warde that a suicide would be bad for business at the hotel. As the most recent hired, Glasco would be the first one let go if business at the hotel suffered. Although Warde was initially sympathetic to the plight of the bellhop who would lose his job if the hotel lost business, he eventually jumped.

The screenplay was written by John Paxton, based on an article by Joel Sayre in The New Yorker, and was directed by Henry Hathaway. It co-starred Barbara Bel Geddes, and was the first movie for both Grace Kelly and Jeffrey Hunter, who have supporting roles.

There s some interesting multi-character drama in this piece cutting between the dramas on the Hotel window ledge, taxi drivers in the street, the cops trying to get Richard Basehart to come down, the despondent, dominant mother and the father who previously left, the fianc?, a potential divorcee who eventually patches things up with her husband and a young couple who meet out in the street watching the events unfold in the crowd.. It is obvious the screenwriters considered the Window Ledge drama contained too little drama to sustain the suspense and tension for a complete movie and so expanded the story to include minor characters surrounding this story with their own stories all of which link into the main story in some way..

I've always been intrigued by this kind of story with this kind of premise.. There aren't many of these types of movies around with this kind of main premise, its pretty unique and for that alone this oddity is well worth adding to your collection.. Some great photography in this too.. Great little movie...

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Film noir a classic film style of the 40s and 50s is noted for its dark themes stark camera angles and high-contrast lighting. Comprising many of Hollywood s finest films film noir tells realistic stories about crime mystery femmes fatales and conflict.This compelling suspense drama spends its time with a tormented young man (Richard Basehart) as he teeters on a New York hotel s 15th floor window ledge deciding whether or not to jump. Paul Douglas plays a traffic cop the first officer on the scene and through his gentle compassionate talk he becomes the only one the man on the ledge trusts. He certainly doesn t trust his mother (Agnes Moorehead) or ex-fianc e (Barbara Bel Geddes). The crowd below is mesmerized and for some the fourteen hours that follow will change their lives forever. This film is notable for the film debut of Grace Kelly in a small role.System Requirements:Running Time: 92 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA UPC:?024543263630 Manufacturer No:?2236363

"There's a jumper on the ledge...." And so, after a wordless opening sequence, begins Fourteen Hours, a taut thriller about a would-be suicide standing outside his hotel-room window on St. Patrick's Day. The jumper, nervously played by Richard Basehart, is counseled by a gallery of interested parties, including a beat cop (Paul Douglas) and the man's divorced parents (Agnes Moorehead and Robert Keith) and fianc?e (Barbara Bel Geddes). Psychiatrist Martin Gabel provides some Freudian analysis of the situation. Along with the drama on the ledge, the film cruises through the reactions of the crowd below, from concerned to cynical. Among the huge ensemble are a surprising gallery of faces, including up-and-comers Grace Kelly, Jeffrey Hunter, and Debra Paget. Howard Da Silva is a cop, and Ossie Davis and Harvey Lembeck (both uncredited) are cab drivers. Director Henry Hathaway had made some of the Fox film noirs emphasizing realism and authentic location shooting (House on 92nd Street, Call Northside 777), and he takes a similar approach to the flavorful Manhattan sites here--albeit mostly within a one-block area. The movie's ticking-clock momentum holds up well, even if some of the social-concern material feels dated. And when you can cut to a vertiginous angle every few minutes, suspense is practically guaranteed. --Robert Horton

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