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6.7/10
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An escaped mental patient causes havoc.An escaped mental patient causes havoc.An escaped mental patient causes havoc.
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
1.2K
YOUR RATING
- Director
- Writers
- John Monks Jr.(screen play by)
- Hugh King(from a story by)
- Don McGuire(from a story by)
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- Director
- Writers
- John Monks Jr.(screen play by)
- Hugh King(from a story by)
- Don McGuire(from a story by)
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- Awards
- 1 nomination
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Hal Baylor
- Lt. 'Whitey' Tallmanas Lt. 'Whitey' Tallman
- (as Hal Fieberling)
Al Bain
- Onlooker in Crowdas Onlooker in Crowd
- (uncredited)
Bill Baldwin
- Reporteras Reporter
- (uncredited)
Argentina Brunetti
- Bus Passengeras Bus Passenger
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- John Monks Jr.(screen play by)
- Hugh King(from a story by)
- Don McGuire(from a story by)
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A young mentally-ill killer, Gunther Wyckoff, escapes from a mental institution, murders a bus driver and, then, takes six hostages in a bar. The gun in Wyckoff's hand kills without emotion or pity, wielded by a man bare of emotion. It begins as a moral question whether an insane killer should or should not be sent to the electric chair, but goes elsewhere before it ends. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
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- TriviaChuckles the bartender (William Conrad says the projection television cost him $1,400 - an amount which equates to about $15,500 in 2020.
- GoofsPerhaps a joke by the set designer, the dashboard of the bus in an early scene shows an air conditioner control with the settings HEATING, OFF and "MANUEL" COOLING.
Top review
Bar patrons held hostage in slice-of-life noir
The disturbed veteran became a staple character of the postwar noir cycle. In Dial 1119 -- the equivalent of 911 today -- clean-cut Marshall Thompson plays the most whacked-out of the bunch, a cold, disengaged psycho who kills without reaction or remorse. Riding the Big Dog into town (the aptly named Terminal City), he steals the bus driver's gun and, when confronted, plugs him dead. Then he holes up in a bar containing a cross-section of small-town America; the liveliest of them is Andrea King as man-hungry barfly Helen. Seems he returned to town to meet with the police psychiatrist who knows the "real" story behind his shell-shocked persona....Dial 1119 is an engaging (if never quite gripping) drama, part of MGM's low-budget, black-and-white early 1950s productions under Dore Schary
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- May 21, 2001
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- The Violent Hour
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- $473,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 15 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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