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Four Hours to Kill
UNITED STATES · 1935

Four Hours to Kill

Mitchell Leisen
crime and law enforcement theater and performance character study unlikely relationships urban setting
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Synopsis

A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.

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