Richard Basehart
Joe Blake
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83 minutes. Country. United Kingdom. Language. English. Box office. £83,383 (UK) [1] The Extra Day (also known as Twelve Desperate Hours and 12 Desperate Hours) is a 1956 British comedy-drama film directed by William Fairchild and starring Richard Basehart, Simone Simon and George Baker. [2]
The Extra Day: Directed by William Fairchild. With Richard Basehart, Simone Simon, George Baker, Josephine Griffin. The final scene of a film has been lost and the extras have to be rounded up for it to be re-shot.
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- Comedy, Drama
- William Fairchild
- 1956-06-25
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The Extra Day. After a mishap on a movie set forces the production to re-film the ending, assistant director Joe Blake (Richard Basehart) must contact the same group of extras present for the ...
- Drama
- Richard Basehart
- William Fairchild
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The Extra Day is a portmanteau film in the tradition of the earlier Derby Day. The ball gets rolling when Joe Blake (Richard Basehart), the assistant to film director Kurt Vorn (Laurence Naismith), routinely summons a group of movie extras for a few necessary retakes.
The Extra Day plot At the end of the last day of shooting, a truck driver from the studio loses the last part of the film. The producer asks his assistant Joe Blake to locate all five additional actors who were involved in the final scene so that they are available the next morning for the new shoot.
