“The Desperate Hours”
Tuesday, August 22, 1 p.m.
(Crime/Drama/Thriller/Film Noir)
Rated PG; 1 hour 52 minutes (1955)
Rarely shown on TV: in one of his last films, Humphrey Bogart plays a mad dog escaped convict who takes over and terrorizes a suburban Indianapolis household. The film critic of The NY Times likened Bogart’s performance to one of his earliest, Duke Mantee, in “The Petrified Forest.”
Stars Humphrey Bogart, Frederic March, Arthur Kennedy.
