The Desperate Hours (1967 film)

The Desperate Hours is a 1967 TV film. It was an adaptation of the 1954 novel The Desperate Hours.

Cast

• George Segal as Glenn Griffin
• Arthur Hill as Dan Hilliard
• Michael Conrad as Sam Robish
• Mart Hulswit as Graham Jarvis
• Michael Kearney as Ralphie Hilliard
• Yvette Mimieux as Cindy Hilliard
• Barry Primus as Hank Griffin
• Dolph Sweet as Jesse Bard
• Ralph Waite as Lt. Fredericks
• Teresa Wright as Eleanor Hilliard

Production

The film was originally going to star George Segal and Robert Stack. 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.

Reception

One reviewer thought the leads were miscast.

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