Stolen Hours

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Stolen Hours
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Movie poster
Directed by Daniel Petrie
Screenplay by Jessamyn West
Story byJoseph Hayes
Based on Dark Victory
1934 play
by George Emerson Brewer, Jr.
Bertram Bloch
Produced byDenis Holt
Starring
Cinematography Harry Waxman
Edited by Geoffrey Foot
Music by Mort Lindsey
Production
company
Distributed by United Artists
Release date
  • October 2, 1963 (1963-10-02)(US)
Running time
97 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish

Stolen Hours is a 1963 British-Americandrama film directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Susan Hayward as a socialite with a brain tumor who falls in love with her surgeon's colleague. [1] The film also stars Michael Craig, Edward Judd and Diane Baker. [2]

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The film is a remake of the 1939 Bette Davis film Dark Victory (1939), with Hayward in Davis's role. [1] The time period was updated and the setting changed to England. [1] It was shot at Shepperton Studios and on location around Britain, including at Polruan in Cornwall. [3] [4]

The film's American title is Summer Flight. [5]

Plot

A neurotic jet-setting socialite is diagnosed with a brain tumor and told that she has only a year left to live. She falls in love with Dr. John Carmody and struggles to turn her life around before she dies.

Cast

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References

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