83 Hours 'Til Dawn (TV 1990)

A wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped and placed in a box with air for only 83 hours.

Director:

Donald Wrye

Writers:

Barbara Jane Mackle (book), Gene Miller (book),

Stars:

Peter Strauss, Robert Urich, Paul Winfield

Cast

Credited cast:
Peter Strauss	...	Wayne Stracton
Robert Urich	...	Bradley Burdock
Paul Winfield	...	Doctor Dantley
Elizabeth Gracen	...	Maria Ranfield
Kevin Kilner	...	Bobby Dankworth
Shannon Wilcox	...	Janet Burdock
R. Lee Ermey	...	Glen Fairling
Samantha Mathis	...	Julie Burdock
Cameron Bancroft	...	David Burdock
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tom Allard	...	Whitewood
Jacqueline Axton	...	Mrs. Dankworth
Victor Brandt	...	Sorella
Christopher Cass	...	Chadway
Ancel Cook	...	Woodmere
Danny Dayton	...	Morgan

Storyline

Wayne Stracton, an unscrupulous psychopathic criminal, kidnaps the teenage Julie Burdock and buries her in a small box with air for only 83 hours. He demands half a million dollars from her father and gives him most detailed instructions on how to deliver the money. Meanwhile the FBI frantically tries to locate Julie, knowing that the kidnaper won't care for her after he's received the money and even less if he doesn't.

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Plot Keywords:

fbi | kidnapping | bound and gagged | ransom | buried alive | 

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Genres:

Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for violence and terror, and some sexuality

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

4 November 1990 (USA)

Also Known As:

83 Stunden - Nervenkrieg gegen die Zeit

Filming Locations:

Long Beach, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Consolidated Productions, Paulette Breen Productions, River City Productions Inc.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Based on the 1971 autobiography of Barbara Jane Mackle, who was kidnapped in 1968 and buried alive for eighty-three hours in a wood-and-fiberglass capsule.

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Connections

Version of The Longest Night (1972)

User Reviews

Based on a true story

The fact that this actually happened (to Barbara Mackle, who wrote a book about her experience that this movie is based on) makes it even creepier. And the fact that the man who kidnapped her is now a doctor (Gary Steven Krist) is frightening. The fact that he thinks everyone should forgive and forget (and even wrote a book of his own) tells me that he has no idea what he did to that girl or what could have happened to her. It's been a while since I saw the movie, but watching it gave me the creeps, thinking that someone could do that to another person. Good movie.