Time Lock (1957)

The six year old son (Vincent Winter) of a bank employee (Lee Patterson) is accidentally sealed in a bank vault with a 63 hour time lock. The vault cannot be opened manually and with less than ten hours of oxygen left inside the safe, it becomes a race to save the boy. Based on a television play by Arthur Hailey (AIRPORT) and directed by Gerald Thomas. The movie starts off promisingly and the first half hour is very tense and very good. But after that it sinks into obvious melodrama and I began losing interest. It's pity that it couldn't follow through with that earlier intensity. If it had, the film might have been a minor classic of its type. As it is, it's highly watchable but not something that will linger much. Notable for an early film appearance by a young Sean Connery as a welder trying to blow his way into the vault. With Robert Beatty, Betty McDowall, Robert Ayres and Sandra Francis.