April 1 movie: The Desperate Hours. Humphrey Bogart leads a gang of three crooks who hold a suburban family (led by dad Fredric March) hostage. This was an excellent, very tense drama. The premise is very similar to The Petrified Forest but I found the earlier movie too talky. That's not at all true of The Desperate Hours, no mean feat for a movie which mostly comprises people standing in a room talking.
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