Hell Below (1933) |
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| Director(s) | Jack Conway |
| Producer(s) | Jack Conway (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Drama, Romance, War |
| Top Topics | World War I |
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Robert Montgomery
(as Lt. Thomas Knowlton US...)
Walter Huston
(as Lt. Cmdr. T.J. Toler U...)
Jimmy Durante
(as Ptomaine)
Eugene Pallette
(as Mac Dougal)
Robert Young
(as Lieut.)
Sterling Holloway
(as Seaman Jenks)
Maude Eburne
(as Lady Higby)
Babe London
(as Fat Girl on Passing Bo...)
Hell Below Overview:
Hell Below (1933) was a Romance - Drama Film directed by Jack Conway and produced by Jack Conway.
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Ptomaine:
[looking at a plus-sized Italian girl on a boat] What big eyes you have, Grandma!
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The destroyer shown sinking in the movie is an actual decommissioned WWI destroyer, USS Moody. Additions were made to the superstructure to replace missing sections, and scuttling charges simulated the torpedo hit.
The print shown on TCM is the 1937 re-release, with some bits of 1933 dialogue obviously eliminated in order to meet the stricter standards of the now enforced 1934 production code.
The photographic crew devised a scheme to photograph targets through a periscope, with a series of lenses and prisms.
Considerable variations in running times were reported in reviews from press previews. Daily Variety reported a time of 155 minutes on 17 March 1933 while the Motion Picture Herald reported 78 minutes on 15 April 1933. In its review, Variety listed 105 minutes on 2 May 1933, but the TCM print was 101 minutes long.