Stolen Hours

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Stolen Hours ★★ ½ 1963

Inferior remake of Bette Davis's “Dark Victory” casts Hayward as an oil-rich heiress who learns she has a fatal illness. Bring the tissues for this tearjerker. Based on the play “Dark Victory” by George Emerson Brewer Jr. and Bertram Block. 100m/C VHS . Susan Hayward, Michael Craig, Diane Baker, Edward Judd, Paul Rogers; D: Daniel Petrie; W: Jessamyn West, Joseph Hayes.