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Hell's Five Hours

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Hell's Five Hours
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJack L. Copeland
Written byJack L. Copeland
Produced byJack L. Copeland
StarringStephen McNally
Coleen Gray
Vic Morrow
Maurice Manson
Robert Foulk
Dan Sheridan
CinematographyErnest Haller
Edited byWalter Hannemann
Music byNicholas Carras
Production
company
Muriel Corporation
Distributed byAllied Artists Pictures
Release date
  • April 13, 1958 (1958-04-13)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Hell's Five Hours is a 1958 American thriller film written, produced and directed by Jack L. Copeland. The film stars Stephen McNally, Coleen Gray, Vic Morrow, Maurice Manson, Robert Foulk and Dan Sheridan. The film was released on April 13, 1958, by Allied Artists Pictures.[1][2][3] An industrial filmmaker[4] and US Army combat photographer in World War II, the film was Jack L. Copland's only mainstream feature film.[5]

Plot

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Burt Nash is a labourer at a rocket fuel factory who is fired and beaten up by his foreman Jack Fife because he smoked a cigarette in a non-smoking area. Nash decides on revenge where he enters the rocket fuel factory by cutting through a security fence. Nash kills a guard, takes his service revolver and uses it to ignite one of the fuel tanks. He returns to obliterate the entire factory by making himself a human bomb with stolen dynamite after he abducts the wife and child of the head of the plant, Mike Brand to use as hostages. A plan is put into place where all the rocket fuel can be pumped out of the factory via a pipeline, but the process will take five hours. Brand is joined by an FBI Special Agent and a police psychiatrist to prevent the entire surrounding town from being destroyed by an inferno.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ "Hell's Five Hours (1958) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  2. ^ Hal Erickson. "Hell's Five Hours (1958) - Jack L. Copeland". AllMovie. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  3. ^ "Hell's Five Hours". Catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  4. ^ "Jack L. Copeland | BFI". Archived from the original on April 11, 2021.
  5. ^ "Jack Copeland Obituary (2007) - Los Angeles, CA - Los Angeles Times".
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