Suddenly Certificate: 
- Duration:
- 72 mins
- Year produced:
- 1954
- Director:
- Lewis Allen
- Cast:
- Frank Sinatra
- Sterling Hayden
- James Gleason
An incredibly tense noir-drama in which an assassin is hired to kill the American president. On the way, he and his two partners take over a widow's house in the small town of Suddenly, which is perfectly situated for an ambush. With it only being a matter of time before the president’s arrival, the assassin gets jumpier by the minute – just as the family become ever more desperate to foil his plans. Who is going to crack first?
Fascinating facts
After the assassination of President John F Kennedy in 1963, star Frank Sinatra withdrew Suddenly from circulation, having learned that Kennedy’s killer Lee Harvey Oswald apparently watched it just days before the crime.
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Fascinating facts
This is the film that Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly watched just a few days before assassinating President John F. Kennedy, a fact that Frank Sinatra learned years after the tragedy, prompting him to withdraw the film from circulation.