Three Hours to Kill 1954 Jim Guthrie Dana Andrews is a fugitive who has been run out of town after being nearly lynched for the murder of a man he did not kill He returns, bearing the physical and mental scars of his experience, determine to clear his name The would be lynchers , fearing that Guthrie will exact some kind of revenge for their anti social treatment to him, set out to get him before he gets them Laurie Mastin Donna Reed is the pregnant girl he left behind who marries another man The real killer is identified