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UNITED STATES · 1954

Hell and High Water

Samuel Fuller
Cold War espionage submarine warfare scientific conspiracy military heroics geopolitical conflict
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Synopsis

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.

Year1954
CountryUnited States
DirectorSamuel Fuller
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