Stolen Hours | |
Director: | Daniel Petrie |
Producer: | Denis Holt |
Screenplay: | Jessamyn West |
Story: | Joseph Hayes |
Music: | Mort Lindsey |
Cinematography: | Harry Waxman |
Editing: | Geoffrey Foot |
Studio: | The Mirisch Corporation |
Distributor: | United Artists |
Runtime: | 97 minutes |
Country: | United Kingdom United States |
Language: | English |
Stolen Hours is a 1963 British-American drama film directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Susan Hayward as a socialite with a brain tumor who falls in love with her surgeon's colleague. The film also stars Michael Craig, Edward Judd and Diane Baker.[1]
The film is a remake of the 1939 Bette Davis film Dark Victory (1939), with Hayward in Davis's role.[2] The time period was updated and the setting changed to England.[2] It was shot at Shepperton Studios and on location around Britain, including at Polruan in Cornwall.[3] [4]
The film's American title is Summer Flight.[5]
A neurotic jet-setting socialite is diagnosed with a brain tumor and told that she has only a year left to live. She falls in love with Dr. John Carmody and struggles to turn her life around before she dies.