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Split Second

Steel Your Nerves! Here's excitement that will smash them!

6.4(32)19531h 25m1

Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
  • atomic bomb test
  • film noir
  • black and white

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Dick Powell

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR2 May 1953
  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalPG2 May 1953
  • NorwayNO

    • Theatrical1 Jun 1954

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Split Second was released on 2 May 1953.

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    John Chard

    11/8/2013

    8.5/10

    Big man, he has Atom Bombs for breakfast! Split Second is directed by Dick Powell and written by William Bowers, Irving Wallace and Chester Erskine. It stars Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling, Keith Andes, Arthur Hunnicutt, Richard Egan, Paul Kelly, Robert Paige and Frank DeKova. Music is by Roy Webb and cinematography by Nicholas Musuraca. Escaped convict Sam Hurley (McNally) is on the run with his…

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