Count the Hours

When a farmer and his housekeeper are found murdered, suspicion falls upon a wrongly accused migrant hand (John Craven)...who, after hours of interrogation, knuckles under to spare his pregnant wife (Teresa Wright) further grief. The doubting defense attorney (Macdonald Carey) assigned to the case comes to believe in his client’s innocence, but can he deliver the evidence that will clear him before the state’s sentence is carried out? Jack Elam, Dolores Moran, Adele Mara also star; Don Siegel directs. 74 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.