A remarkably compact motion picture... those who have no memory of that or any similar case will find gripping suspense, absorbing drama and stinging social comment in this film.

Fourteen Hours offered the best opportunities for clean movie action and editing, but Henry Hathaway, the director, and Joe McDonald, cinematographer, were both inhibited by Paxton’s script which failed to establish a coherent point of view.

It all unfolds with too calculated an ease to qualify as a valid treatment of the subject.

This spellbinder script by John Paxton is crammed with tricks and messages the size of dinosaur bones.