83 Hours 'til Dawn (1990)
Directed by Donald Wrye
Genres - Drama, Crime |
Sub-Genres - Crime Thriller, Docudrama |
Release Date - Nov 4, 1990 (USA) |
Run Time - 120 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - PG13
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
83 Hours 'Til Dawn utilizes a plot device originally seen on another fact-based TV movie, The Longest Night (1972). Robert Urich stars as a wealthy business executive whose 20-year-old daughter is abducted by sociopathic Peter Strauss. The kidnapper seals his victim in a small box and buries it deep underground, with an air-tube as her only conduit to the outside world. Strauss threatens to never reveal the girl's whereabouts unless Urich ponies up half a million dollars. The original telecast of 83 Hours 'Til Dawn ran a distant second to a competing network showing of the theatrical feature Three Men and A Baby (87).
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killing, prevention, buried-alive, daughter, kidnapping, maniac, premature-burial, race-against-time, racer, rescue, victim