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Fredric March's part was intended for Spencer Tracy, a good friend of Humphrey Bogart's, but neither Tracy nor Bogart was willing to concede top billing to the other.
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The exterior of the house used in the film is the same set used as the Cleaver home in the TV series Leave It to Beaver.
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Humphrey Bogart's last tough-guy role.
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The first black and white movie in VistaVision.
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The Character of Glenn Griffin was made older so Humphrey Bogart could play the role. The stage version starred Karl Malden and a young Paul Newman in the Bogart role
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This movie and the play on which it was based, are loosely based on the experience of the Hill family in 1952. An article published by Life magazine about the play is the subject of the Supreme Court case Time Inc. v. Hill, in which the family sued the magazine for stating that play depicted what really happened.
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Chuck's car was a Nash-Healey.
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Bogart to director Wyler after the preview: "I think I'm too old to play gangsters"
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The original Broadway production of "The Desperate Hours" by Joseph Hayes opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York on February 10, 1955, ran for 212 performances and won the 1955 Tony Award for the Best Play. The play starred Paul Newman, George Grizzard and George Mathews as the gangsters with Karl Malden and Nancy Coleman as the Hilliard parents and Pat Peardon and Malcolm Brodrick as their children.
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Hugh O'Brian played the Fredric March role on the stage of the Arlington Park Theater in Arlington Heights, IL, in the early 1970s.
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