Tuesday, November 10, 2015

24 Hours to Kill (1965)


Seven Arts Pictures
Directed by Peter Bezencenet
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
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An airline is forced to make an emergency landing in Beirut after engine trouble. The passengers and crew are stranded there for 24 hours. Flight attendant Mickey Rooney becomes paranoid and thinks the locals are following him. He tries to hide his past from the other crew members, but eventually reveals he is involved with gold smuggling and he really is in danger. The others try to help him, but are continually distracted by their romantic entanglements. Potentially intriguing premise stymied by melodramatic subplots and slow pacing. Rooney is relatively restrained.

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