Directed by:
Daniel PetrieCinematography:
Harry WaxmanComposer:
Mort LindseyCast:
Susan Hayward, Michael Craig, Diane Baker, Jerry Desmonde, Edward Judd, Paul Rogers, Marianne Stone, Peter Madden, Paul Stassino, Chet BakerPlots(1)
Stolen Hours is the 1963 remake of the 1939 Bette Davis vehicle Dark Victory. Susan Hayward plays a rich, neurotic socialite who discovers that she only has a year to live. Acting resentfully at first--especially towards handsome doctor Michael Craig, who withheld this information from her "for her own good"--Hayward eventually adopts a philosophical attitude towards her fate. By the time she begins slipping into "that undiscovered uncountry," Hayward is practically a candidate for sainthood. A plot device not utilized in the original involves Hayward's virtual adoption of a young boy (Robert Bacon), who is neglected by his own mother. Novelist Jessamyn West and playwright Joseph Hayes did their best to "contemporize" the outdated elements of the original Dark Victory, even unto having Susan Hayward learn to dance the Twist! (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Susan Hayward
USA
Best movies:
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Beau Geste (1939)
Rawhide (1951)
Michael Craig
India
Best movies:
The Silent Enemy (1958)
Desert Patrol (1958)
Campbell's Kingdom (1957)
Diane Baker
USA
Best movies:
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
The Blue and the Gray (1982) (series)
Jerry Desmonde
UK
Best movies:
Trouble in Store (1953)
The Early Bird (1965)
A Stitch in Time (1963)
Edward Judd
China
Best movies:
O Lucky Man! (1973)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983) (TV movie)
Jack the Ripper (1988) (TV movie)
Paul Rogers
UK
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
Our Man in Havana (1959)
Marianne Stone
UK
Best movies:
Tiger Bay (1959)
To Sir, with Love (1967)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Peter Madden
Malaysia
Best movies:
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
A Town Like Alice (1956)
From Russia with Love (1963)
Paul Stassino
Cyprus
Best movies:
Tiger Bay (1959)
Thunderball (1965)
Ice-Cold in Alex (1958)
Chet Baker
USA