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Hell and High Water

29 men and one woman ... in the captive world of a submarine !

6.0(67)19541h 43m3

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
Box office
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Language
English
  • submarine
  • alaska

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • 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

    7/10

    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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