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Hold Back Tomorrow is a 1955 American film noir drama film directed by Hugo Haas and starring Cleo Moore and John Agar. Plot. In an unnamed country, Joe Cardos, a double murderer awaiting hanging in an isolation cell the next morning, is allowed by law to have one last request before his execution.
Hold Back Tomorrow: Directed by Hugo Haas. With John Agar, Cleo Moore, Frank DeKova, Dallas Boyd. A condemned murderer, scheduled to hang in the morning, asks for the company of a woman in his final hours.
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- Drama, Film-Noir
- Hugo Haas
- 1955-11
Destitute Dora Garbin, who can no longer earn a living even as a prostitute, jumps off a bridge, and is dismayed to be rescued from the water by a passerby. She stumbles home, where a fortune-teller outside her apartment predicts that she will live a long life and find love.
- Hugo Haas, Willard Kirkham, Byron Roberts
- Cleo Moore
Synopsis: As his final request, a death-row prisoner named Joe (John Agar) asks for a girl to be sent to his cell. When a suicidal prostitute named Dora (Cleo Moore) shows up, Joe is at first disappointed — but soon the two misfits realize they have more in common than they thought, and a last-minute romance ensues.
A condemned murderer, scheduled to hang in the morning, asks for the company of a woman in his final hours. Joe Cardos, a death row inmate in some unidentified country, is to face the gallows in the morning for strangling three women.
Suicidal hooker Cleo Moore agrees to spend the night with condemned prisoner John Agar in this Hugo Haas film noir.
Written, produced and directed by Hugo Haas, Hold Back Tomorrow stars Cleo Moore as Dora Garben, a prostitute who is chosen at random to visit death row inmate Joe Cardos (John Agar) – to be executed the next day for a series of strangling murders of three young women – to fulfil his last request.
