Three Hours to Kill

A strange little western - one of dozens influenced by High Noon's emphasis on ticking clocks - in which Dana Andrews has three hours to find the man who killed his fiancée's brother. Having escaped a lynch mob and finding, three years later, that his lady love (Donna Reed) is unhappily married to a former friend, Andrews is in a hurry to clear his name and give us a happy ending. Andrews - never a truly macho hero as he always seems to be weighed down by problems - is well cast, and the story rattles along in B-movie fashion, with mild tension and an agreeable lack of pretension.