Three Hours to Kill is a 1954 American Western film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Dana Andrews, Donna Reed and Dianne Foster.

[2] Jim Guthrie (Dana Andrews) returns to town three years after being falsely accused of murdering Carter Mastin (Richard Webb).

Jim finds that his old friend Ben East (Stephen Elliott) is now the sheriff.

In a flashback, Jim recounts his near-lynching by a mob convinced he had shot Carter in the back.

Through confrontations with several of the men who had been eager to hang him, Jim is led to the guilty man.