Hell and High Water
Synopsis
At the height of the Cold War, sub commander Adam Jones is recruited to crack a communist plot to start World War III. He and his crew travel to an island near Japan, where the Chinese are reportedly building a secret base.
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Awards & Festivals
Academy Awards
1955 | Nominee: Best Effects, Special Effects
Directors Guild of America
1955 | Nominee: Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
Golden Globes (USA)
1954 | Winner: Most Promising Newcomer - Female
Critics reviews
Fox hired director Samuel Fuller to shoot this in a few days, partly to prove that CinemaScope could work in tight spaces and on a limited budget, and he did a pretty good job with it. He even got to rewrite the script, defiantly giving Widmark a variant of the salty, unpatriotic line that J. Edgar Hoover had already tried and failed to get Fuller to delete from Pickup on South Street: "Are you waving the flag at me?
Jonathan Rosenbaum
March 29, 2007
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