- Beirut's resident villains are Malouf and his gold-smuggling syndicate, who spend the crew's twenty-four-hour layover attempting murder and kidnapping - twice trying to kill the purser, seizing an air hostess as a bargaining chip, and finally gunning their quarry down at the airport.
24 Hours to Kill (1966)
film · 1965 film by Peter Bezencenet
- Director
- Peter Bezencenet
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Distributor
- SA
- Genre
- drama film
- Cast
- Lex Barker, Mickey Rooney, Walter Slezak, Michael Medwin, Helga Sommerfield, Hans Clarin, Shakib Khouri
- Production notes
- Filmed in Lebanon. Nadia Gemal, the noted Lebanese dancer who entertained audiences at Beirut’s Phonecia Hotel for decades, appears momentarily as Mimi, “a dancer with a seventeen-jewel movement.”
