The Desperate Hours | |
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Directed by | Ted Kotcheff |
Written by | Clive Exton |
Based on | play by Joseph Hayes |
Produced by |
Daniel Melnick executive David Susskind |
Release date | 1967 |
Country | USA |
Language | English |
The Desperate Hours is a 1967 TV film. It was an adaptation of the 1954 novel The Desperate Hours.
The film was originally going to star George Segal and Robert Stack. [1] Stack then read the script, was unhappy his role – that of the father – had been changed into a "psychopathic heavy" and pulled out, saying it "wasn't the same story" as the novel and play. [2]
One reviewer thought the leads were miscast. [3]