The Desperate Hours
Three men out of the Indiana state penitentiary pick a brick house in a quiet Indianapolis suburb to sit in while a girlfriend wires money, and tell the family inside to go about the day and say nothing. The father drives to the office, the daughter keeps a date, and the ringleader watches the telephone in the hall. Wyler cast Humphrey Bogart as a convict holding a household hostage nineteen years after The Petrified Forest.
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