When Arthur causes trouble, Sam kills him without a qualm. Larry warns the gangsters that the government is going to conduct an atomic bomb test nearby the next morning, but Sam does not believe him. Sam calls Kay's husband Neal (Richard Egan), a doctor, and threatens to kill Kay if he does not come and help Bart. Along the way, they pick up several hostages, Kay Garven (Alexis Smith) and her lover Arthur Ashton (Robert Paige), reporter Larry Fleming (Keith Andes), dancer Dorothy "Dottie" Vail (Jan Sterling), and the town's sole resident, Asa Tremaine (Arthur Hunnicutt). They meet up with a confederate, a mute named "Dummy" (Frank de Kova), and hide out in a ghost town. Sam Hurley (Stephen McNally) and Bart Moore (Paul Kelly) escape from prison, although Moore is seriously wounded in the breakout. It features Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling, and Keith Andes. He was buried in the Coop Prairie Cemetery in Mansfield, Arkansas.Split Second is a 1953 American film noir thriller directed by Dick Powell about escaped convicts and their hostages holed up in a ghost town, unaware of the grave danger they are in. On September 27, 1979, Hunnicutt died of cancer at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital at age 69. In his later years, Hunnicutt served as honorary mayor of Northridge, California.
In one of his last movies, Moonrunners (1975)-the precursor to The Dukes of Hazzard-he played the original Uncle Jesse. He made two memorable appearances on Perry Mason in 1963: he played orange grower Amos Kennesaw Mountain Keller in "The Case of the Golden Oranges," and prospector Sandy Bowen in "The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito." He also made guest appearances on Bonanza, Cheyenne, Gunsmoke, The Outer Limits, The Rifleman, Wanted: Dead or Alive, The Andy Griffith Show, The Wild Wild West, Adam-12, and The Twilight Zone. Throughout the '50s, '60s and '70s, Hunnicutt made nearly 40 guest appearances on American television programs. In 1952, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the Howard Hawks film The Big Sky. He played a long string of supporting role characters-sympathetic, wise rural types, as in The Red Badge of Courage (1951), The Lusty Men (1952), The Kettles in the Ozarks (1955), The Last Command (1955, as Davy Crockett), The Tall T (1957), Cat Ballou (1965, as Butch Cassidy), El Dorado (1966) and The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin. In 1949 he moved back to Hollywood and resumed his film career. He appeared in a number of films in the early 1940s before returning to the stage. Hunnicutt's first film was Wildcat (1942). Hunnicutt often found himself cast as a character much older than himself. While touring as the lead actor in Tobacco Road, he developed the country character he would later be typecast as throughout his career. Moving to New York City, he worked in the laundry at the Algonquin Hotel for 17 months before landing roles in Broadway productions.
He moved to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, where he joined up with a theatre company. An article in the September 22, 1940, issue of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, "There isn't a decent sized medicine show traveling through Kentucky, Illinois, Georgia, Indiana or Mississippi, nor a stock company touring those states, which hasn't had the name of Arthur Hunnicutt on its programs." After eight years of such activity, in 1936 he enrolled in a drama school in Cleveland to study theatrical techniques for a year. Hunnicutt gained early acting experience in stock theatre and entertained in traveling shows. He attended the University of Central Arkansas and Arkansas State Teachers College but dropped out when he ran out of money. On February 17, 1910, Hunnicutt was born in Gravelly, Arkansas.
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