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DIAL 1119, screen play by John Monks Jr.; from a story by Hugh King and Don McGuire; directed by Gerald Mayer; produced by Richard Goldstone for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. At the Globe.Gunther Wyckoff
Critics reviews. A young mentally-ill killer, Gunther Wyckoff, escapes from a mental institution, murders a bus driver and, then, takes six hostages in a bar. The gun in Wyckoff’s hand kills without emotion or pity, wielded by a man bare of emotion.
Synopsis by Hal Erickson. Louis B. Mayer's nephew Gerald proved himself an able director with the MGM "B" thriller Dial 1119. Marshall Thompson stars as an emotionally disturbed young man who pulls out a gun at a bar and holds the patrons hostage. As the police gather outside, the film concentrates on the various bar customers, each of whom has ...
Dial 1119 is approximately half of a great film, offering a chilling central performance by Marshall Thompson as a mentally ill man who escapes from a hospital and holds a bar's patrons hostage, the drama also contemplating some potentially compelling ideas about the role of mass media (in this case, early television) to exploit tragedies, but the material is handled inconsistently by director ...
Dial 1119 is a film directed by Gerald Mayer with Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Andrea King, Sam Levene .... Year: 1950. Original title: Dial 1119. Synopsis: A former mental patient murders a bus driver, then takes refuge in a bar, where he holds the patrons hostage.You can watch Dial 1119 through on the platforms:
Dial 1119. First feature film directed by Gerald Mayer, nephew of MGM head Louis B. Mayer. The television station uses the ominous WKYL (kill) as its call letters, and the name of the town is "Terminal City". Chuckles the bartender ( William Conrad) says the projection television (which actually didn't exist at the time of the film) cost him ...
