Three Hours to Kill

"The Man With The Rope Scar ON HIS NECK!"

Nov 4 1954 Approved 1h 17m
Action, Drama, Mystery

After three years on the run, Jim Guthrie returns with the scar of a rope burn on his neck. In a flashback, we learn how he was framed for murder but then escaped from the lynch mob just as he was about to be hung. Tired of running, he has returned to find the real killer and the Sheriff has given him just three hours to do it.

Plot

Jim Guthrie (Dana Andrews) is a fugitive who has been run out of town after being nearly lynched for the murder of a man he did not kill. He returns, bearing the physical and mental scars of his experience, determine to clear his name. The would-be-lynchers , fearing that Guthrie will exact some kind of revenge for their anti-social treatment to him, set out to get him before he gets them. Laurie Mastin (Donna Reed) is the pregnant girl he left behind who marries another man. The real killer is identified.

Written by

Richard Alan Simmons, Roy Huggins, Maxwell Shane

Directed by

Alfred L. Werker

Cast

Dana Andrews, Donna Reed, Dianne Foster

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
952
Average Rating
6.4 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA