Five Days (1954 film)

Five Days (U.S. title: Paid to Kill) is a 1954 British second feature ('B') film noir directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Dane Clark, Paul Carpenter and Thea Gregory. It was written by Paul Tabori and produced by Anthony Hinds for Hammer Film Productions. Jimmy Sangster was assistant director, J. Elder Wills was art director, and Phil Leakey handled Makeup. Dane Clark had finished starring in Hammer's Murder by Proxy and was supposed to return to the US to star in some Westerns, but Anthony Hinds persuaded him to stay in England to star in Five Days. Filming ran from Nov. 9, 1953 to Dec. 16, 1953, and it was trade shown on May 12, 1954 at the Hammer Theatre. It was released in the United States by Lippert Pictures. The US print (retitled Paid to Kill) ran 3 minutes longer than the British print.