Running Time (film)
Running Time is a 1997 independent film written, produced & directed by Josh Becker. Principal cast members are Bruce Campbell, Jeremy Roberts and Anita Barone.
The movie was filmed in real time similar to Robert Wise's noir boxing film The Set-Up (1949). It also tracks as a continuous take with no cuts, rather like Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948). For aesthetic and practical reasons, Becker opted for black & white, offering a neo-Noir feel and giving him fewer problems in scene transitions.
Plot
A prison inmate (Campbell) receives early release only to immediately rejoin his former criminal comrades in a heist. In the hour or so he rekindles a romance with an old flame (Barone) and realizes the "good ol' days" with his partner in crime (Roberts) just might not have been so good.
Cast
Bruce Campbell – Carl Matushka
Jeremy Roberts – Patrick
Anita Barone – Randi/Jane
William Stanford Davis – Buzz
Gordon Jennison Noice – Donny
Art LaFleur – Warden Emmett E. Walton
Dana Craig – Mr. Mueller