Film

Hell and High Water 1954

Directed by Samuel Fuller

  • Adventure, Drama, Action
  • 103 min
  • NR

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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