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Fourteen Hours
UNITED STATES · 1951

Fourteen Hours

Henry Hathaway
suicide prevention parental abandonment mental health crisis police intervention romantic inadequacy
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Synopsis

A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.

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