Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames


A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.
5.7
Score
6 votes
“"Get ready to die, you rat! You sent me to the gallows for a measly two hundred bucks!"”
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1948