The Desperate Hours (1967 film)

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The Desperate Hours
Directed byTed Kotcheff
Written byClive Exton
Based onplay by Joseph Hayes
Produced byDaniel Melnick
executive
David Susskind
Release date
1967
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish

The Desperate Hours is a 1967 TV film. It was an adaptation of the 1954 novel The Desperate Hours.

Cast

Production

The film was originally going to star George Segal and Robert Stack.[1] Stack then read the script, was unhappy his role – that of the father – had been changed into a "psychopathic heavy" and pulled out, saying it "wasn't the same story" as the novel and play.[2]

Reception

One reviewer thought the leads were miscast.[3]

References

  1. ^ "A.B.C.-TV PREPARING 'DESPERATE HOURS'". New York Times. May 31, 1967. ProQuest 118033113.
  2. ^ "Relentless robert pursues quality". Los Angeles Times. Jul 20, 1967. ProQuest 155712059.
  3. ^ MacMINN, A. (Dec 15, 1967). "TV REVIEWS". Los Angeles Times. ProQuest 155799841.

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