Fourteen Hours (1951 film)

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Fourteen Hours is a 1951 American film noir drama centered on a tense, real-time standoff with a suicidal man perched on a high ledge of a New York City skyscraper.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf film
basedOn The Man on the Ledge
basedOnAuthor Joel Sayre
basedOnForm magazine article
castMember Agnes Moorehead
Barbara Bel Geddes
Debra Paget
Grace Kelly
Howard Da Silva
Jeffrey Hunter
Paul Douglas
Richard Basehart
Robert Keith
cinematographyBy Joseph MacDonald
countryOfOrigin United States
director Henry Hathaway
distributor 20th Century Fox
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
linked to: 20th Century Fox
distributorRegion theatrical release in the United States
editedBy Dorothy Spencer
filmFormat black-and-white
filmingLocation 20th Century Fox studios
linked to: 20th Century Fox

New York City
genre drama
film noir
leadActor Paul Douglas
Richard Basehart
mainCharacterRole suicidal man on a skyscraper ledge
MPAARating Not Rated (original release)
musicBy Leigh Harline
narrativeFocus standoff between a suicidal man and authorities
narrativeTimeFrame real time
notableFor early film appearance of Grace Kelly
originalLanguage English
plotSummary A suicidal man stands on a high ledge of a New York City skyscraper while police, family, and bystanders attempt to save him during a tense standoff.
producer Sol C. Siegel
productionCompany 20th Century Fox
releaseDecade 1950s
releaseYear 1951
runtimeMinutes 92
screenwriter John Paxton
settingLocation Manhattan
New York City
subjectMatter police negotiation
psychological crisis
suicide
title Fourteen Hours

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Richard Basehart participatedIn Fourteen Hours (1951 film)