Six Hours to Live

{{short description|1932 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Six Hours to Live | image =File:Six Hours to Live.jpg | caption = | director = [[William Dieterle]] | producer = | writer = [[Morton Barteaux]] [[Bradley King (screenwriter)|Bradley King]] [[Gordon Morris]] | narrator = | starring = [[Warner Baxter]] [[Miriam Jordan]] [[John Boles (actor)|John Boles]] | music = [[R.H. Bassett]] [[Peter Brunelli]] | cinematography = [[John F. Seitz]] | editing = [[Ralph Dixon]] | studio = [[Fox Film Corporation]] | distributor = Fox Film Corporation | released = {{Film date|1932|10|16}} | runtime = 72 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }} '''''Six Hours to Live''''' is a 1932 American [[pre-Code]] [[science fiction film|science fiction]] [[drama film]] directed by [[William Dieterle]] and starring [[Warner Baxter]], [[Miriam Jordan]] and [[John Boles (actor)|John Boles]].<ref>Solomon p.336</ref> It is based on the story "Auf Weidersehen" by Gordon Morris and Morton Barteaux.

==Plot== Paul Onslow, an ambassador from a small mythical country, stands in the way of an international trade agreement because it would be ruinous for his nation. He receives several threats and on the eve of the final vote he is murdered. A visiting scientist who has invented a special ray restores Onslow to life for six hours. Rather than take revenge on his killer, Onslow devotes his short reprieve to good deeds, including convincing his fiancee to forget him and marry another man; casting his vote against the trade agreement; and destroying the scientist's machine.

==Cast== * [[Warner Baxter]] as Capt. Paul Onslow * [[Miriam Jordan]] as Baroness Valerie von Sturm * [[John Boles (actor)|John Boles]] as Karl Kranz * [[George F. Marion]] as Prof. Otto Bauer * [[Halliwell Hobbes]] as Baron Emil von Sturm * [[Irene Ware]] as The Prostitute * [[Beryl Mercer]] as The Widow * [[Edward McWade]] as Ivan * [[John Davidson (actor, born 1886)|John Davidson]] as Kellner * [[Edwin Maxwell (actor)|Edwin Maxwell]] as Police Commissioner * [[Dewey Robinson]] as Blucher * [[Eugenie Besserer]] as The Marquisa * [[Marilyn Harris (actress)|Marilyn Harris]] as Flower Girl * [[Claude King (English actor)|Claude King]] as Conference Chairman * [[Michael Mark (actor)|Michael Mark]] as Townsman in Window * [[Torben Meyer]] as Sturges - Butler * [[John Reinhardt (director)|John Reinhardt]] as Masher * [[Bodil Rosing]] as Greta * [[Michael Visaroff]] as Monsieur Thereux * [[Wilhelm von Brincken]] as Reporter * [[Hans Heinrich von Twardowski]] as Flosky

==Reception== Critic Mordaunt Hall wrote in ''The New York Times'', "Fantastic as is the theme of 'Six Hours to Live,' William Dieterle's gifted direction and the capable performances of the principals cause it to be an unusually compelling piece of work. It may disappoint those who look for a final flash of the hero and heroine in each other's arms, but it will please others who want imagination and subtlety in screen entertainment."<ref>"One Dead Man Who Tells Some Tales: 'Six Hours to Live' Is Decidedly Original," by Mordaunt Hall. ''New York Times.'' 30 Oct 1932: X5.</ref>

''Harrison's Reports'' wrote: "A treat awaits the picture-going public, at least such of it as appreciates art, for the industry has not yet produced the equal of it. So thrillingly fascinating it is. It is not due so much to the story as it is to the direction, and naturally to the acting. Director Dieterle's artistry has imparted delicate shadings to the mood."<ref>"'Six Hours to Live' With Warner Baxter." ''Harrison's Reports.'' Oct. 22, 1932, p. 171.</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Solomon, Aubrey. ''The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935. A History and Filmography''. McFarland & Co, 2011.

==External links== * {{IMDb title|0023480}}

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