Three Hours to Kill


Three Hours to Kill is a 1954 American Western film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Dana Andrews and Donna Reed.
It inspired the 1956 Roger Corman film Gunslinger.

Plot

Jim Guthrie returns to town three years after being falsely accused of murdering Carter Mastin. Jim finds that his old friend Ben East is now the sheriff. In a flashback, Jim recounts his near-lynching by a mob convinced he had shot Carter in the back. Laurie, Carter's sister, who was planning on marrying Jim, disrupts the lynching, and Jim narrowly escapes. He still bears a neck scar from his ordeal. Ben gives Jim three hours to find the true killer. Through confrontations with several of the men who had been eager to hang him, Jim is led to the guilty man.

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