Count the Hours ( Every Minute Counts )

Count the Hours (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Every Minute Counts
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
Spanish ( Mono )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
74 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1953 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Don Siegel

Written By:
Doane R. Hoag

Actors:
Teresa Wright ..... Ellen Braden
Macdonald Carey ..... Doug Madison
Dolores Moran ..... Paula Mitchener
Adele Mara ..... Gracie Sager, Max Verne's Girlfriend
Edgar Barrier ..... Dist. Atty. Jim Gillespie
John Craven ..... George Braden
Jack Elam ..... Max Verne
Ralph Sanford ..... Alvin Taylor

Synopsis:

The midnight murder of a rancher and his wife leaves circumstantial evidence pointing the finger of guilt toward a married couple, George Braden and his wife Ellen, who live and work on the ranch. George confesses to the killings in order to free his wife from hours of grilling by the police. Despite the best efforts of his defense attorney, Doug Madison , George gets the death penalty. Sunsequent events and his sympathy for Ellen convince Doug that George is innocent but he must find the real murderer to prove it. His man-hunt leads to a former hired hand, Max Verne. With the help of the latter's greedy girl friend, Gracie Sanger, Max is found and admits to the killings. But when a hearing is held, a psychiatrist pronounces him unsound of mind but harmless and the judge sets him free. After the governor rejects Doug's pleas for an appeal for George, the townspeople turn against him, and his fiancée, Paula Mitchener), misconstrues his association with Ellen and breaks their engagement. And, having spent all his own money in an effort to achieve justice for George, and with his practice gone, Doug prepares to leave town.

Director Don Siegel keeps the events in Count the Hours moving so quickly that no one has time to ponder the film's huge lapses in logic. MacDonald Carey stars as a defense attorney Doug Madison who races against time to save migrant ranchhand George Braden (John Craven) from execution. While Madison tells himself that his motives are altruistic, there are those who believe that the lawyer has designs on Braden's wife, Ellen (Teresa Wright). Sacrificing everything in the pursuit of justice, Madison finally finds the crucial evidence that will free his client--if he can deliver the goods, and the actual murderer, before the switch is thrown in the death house. Produced by Benedict Bogeaus, whose wife Dolores Moran plays a supporting role, Count the Hours was somewhat pointlessly retitled Every Hour Counts when released in England.

Crime, drama, thriller. The story of George Braden, a man who is falsely arrested for murder and freed at the eleventh hour when the real killer is found.

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