

Hell and High Water
29 men and one woman ... in the captive world of a submarine !
A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine spectacle and cold war heroics.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1.9M
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- Language
- English
- submarine
- alaska
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR6 Feb 1954
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG1 Feb 1954
BrazilBR
- Theatrical121 Jan 1955
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1231 Jul 1954
PortugalPT
- Theatricale 1219 May 1955
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Hell and High Water was released on 1 February 1954.
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CinemaSerf
11/21/2022
Richard Widmark is on quite good form here, as the veteran naval officer hired by a group of scientists to take a ramshackle old submarine from Japan to investigate some mysterious goings-on on an island under Chinese control, and where they think atomic experiments may be taking place. Setting sail with "Prof. Montel" (Victor Francen) and his assistant "Denise" (Bella Darvi) it soon becomes clear that their scarcely…
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