

Hell and High Water
DirectorSamuel Fuller
“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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Hell and High Water (1954) Original Trailer
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)
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