Hell and High Water

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

6.0(62)19541h 43m

AdventureDramaAction

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.

Director

Samuel Fuller

Budget

$1.9M

Cast

Richard Widmark

Capt. Adam Jones

Bella Darvi

Denise Montel

Victor Francen

Prof. Montel

Cameron Mitchell

'Ski' Brodski

Gene Evans

Chief Holter

David Wayne

Tugboat Walker

Stephen Bekassy

Neuman

Richard Loo

Hakada Fujimori

Robert Adler

Welles (uncredited)

Eugene Borden

French Reporter (uncredited)

Leslie Bradley

Mr. Aylesworth (uncredited)

Henry Kulky

McCrossin (uncredited)

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

3y ago

7.0

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...