Marshall Thompson
Gunther Wyckoff
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Dial 1119 is a 1950 film noir directed by Gerald Mayer, nephew of Louis B. Mayer. The film stars Marshall Thompson as a deranged escaped killer holding the customers of a bar hostage. The telephone number "1119" is the police emergency number used in the film.
Dial 1119: Directed by Gerald Mayer. With Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Andrea King, Sam Levene. An escaped psychiatric patient causes havoc.
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- Film-Noir, Thriller
- Gerald Mayer
- 1950-11-03
1950's Dial 1119 is a low-budget MGM picture that resembles a one-act play expanded to short feature length. With economic pressures coming down hard on the studios, the expense of something like An American in Paris had to be balanced by making other studio producers come up with something for nothing.
- Gerald Mayer, Sid Sidman
- Marshall Thompson
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Dial 1119. Delusional patient Gunther Wyckoff (Marshall Thompson) escapes from a mental institution intent on locating and killing Dr. John Faron (Sam Levene), whose testimony sent him to the ...
- Crime, Drama
- Gerald Mayer
- David Nusair
- Marshall Thompson
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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 ...
