The Desperate Hours
A reign of violence sweeps the screen.
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
- Director
- William Wyler
- Signature
- Tension · Craft · Drama
- Worldwide
- $3M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
30 billed performers
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How The Desperate Hours actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
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Story overview
What It's About
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Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
The Desperate Hours returned 1.1× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $2M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $3M
- Release date
- Oct 5, 1955
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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