Four Hours to Kill!

1935 • Directed by

Mitchell Leisen

Drama, Crime

"Get ready to die, you rat! You sent me to the gallows for a measly two hundred bucks!"

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.