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Hell and High Water (1954)

Director: Samuel Fuller

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From Time Out Film Guide

Known for his uninhibited camera movements, Fuller was the obvious person for Fox to ask to make a CinemaScope movie in an enclosed space in order to prove to doubting executives that the walls of the cinema would not appear to rotate during tracking shots or pans. The result was Hell and High Water, which is mostly set aboard a submarine, and tells the story of a group of patriots and mercenaries who stop the Chinese from dropping an atomic bomb from an 'American' plane at the time of the Korean war. A deeply pessimistic film, it questions the roots of loyalty and identity by examining the stated motives of its characters at every stage of the film. Widmark is at his ambiguous best.

Author: PH

Time Out Film Guide

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Cast & crew

Director: Samuel Fuller

Producer: Raymond A Klune

Cast: Richard Widmark full cast

Genre(s): War

Duration: 103 mins


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