This isn't a bad film, though it would be better if seen in the original widescreen aspect ratio and with a better lead character. Many of the credits are all good B pros doing B plus work and with some future TV stars playing against what would their type later on.
Although it has its moments, "Twelve Hours to Kill" is pretty much a by- the-numbers wannabe "noir" with little imagination, style or flair, hampered by a poor script, leaden direction and overwrought performances by lead actor Nico Minardos and several supporting actors (although Barbara Eden, as the romantic interest, is actually quite good). The story is about a Greek immigrant who witnesses a mob hit and flees to a small town with a pair of hit men after him, and finds out that that the case not only involves murder but police corruption.
That's one of those Edward L Cahn films I waited to see since so many years, and that disappointed me. A flat plot about gangsters witnessed by Greek immigrants during their crime.
A Greek national living in New York happens to be a witness to a mob hit and must flee the city for a sleepy little town. He meets a woman (Barbara Eden) on the train ride to the small town.
