Hell and High Water

1954 · directed by Samuel Fuller

Rating

68/100

Hit

no

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.

Hell and High Water (1954), directed by Samuel Fuller, rates 68/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Richard Widmark
• Bella Darvi
• Victor Francen
• Cameron Mitchell
• Gene Evans
• David Wayne
• Stephen Bekassy
• Richard Loo
• Robert Adler
• Eugene Borden

Crew

• Joseph MacDonald — Director of Photography
• James B. Clark — Editor
• Alfred Newman — Original Music Composer
• Jesse Lasky Jr. — Screenplay
• Samuel Fuller — Screenplay

More from Samuel Fuller

1. Underworld U.S.A. (1961) — 83/100 · hit
2. The Steel Helmet (1951) — 83/100 · hit
3. Pickup on South Street (1953) — 82/100 · hit
4. Shock Corridor (1963) — 80/100 · hit
5. The Naked Kiss (1964) — 78/100
6. White Dog (1982) — 78/100

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