''Hell's Five Hours'' is a 1958 American
thriller film
Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre. ...
written, produced and directed by Jack L. Copeland. The film stars
Stephen McNally,
Coleen Gray
Coleen Gray (born Doris Jensen; October 23, 1922 – August 3, 2015) was an American actress. She was best known for her roles in the films '' Nightmare Alley'' (1947), '' Red River'' (1948), and Stanley Kubrick's '' The Killing'' (1956).
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,
Vic Morrow,
Maurice Manson,
Robert Foulk and
Dan Sheridan. The film was released on April 13, 1958, by
Allied Artists Pictures. An industrial filmmaker and US Army combat photographer in World War II, the film was Jack L. Copland's only mainstream feature film.
Plot
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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Stephen McNally as Mike Brand
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Coleen Gray
Coleen Gray (born Doris Jensen; October 23, 1922 – August 3, 2015) was an American actress. She was best known for her roles in the films '' Nightmare Alley'' (1947), '' Red River'' (1948), and Stanley Kubrick's '' The Killing'' (1956).
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as Nancy Brand
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Vic Morrow as Burt Nash
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Maurice Manson as Dr. Howard Culver
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Robert Foulk as Jack Fife
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Dan Sheridan as Special Agent Ken Archer
*Will J. White as Al Parker
*Robert Christopher as Bill
*Charles J. Conrad as George Knight
*Ray Ferrell as Eric Brand
References
External links
* {{IMDb title, 0051714, Hell's Five Hours
1958 films
American thriller films
1950s thriller films
Allied Artists films
1950s English-language films
1950s American films
English-language thriller films