Journey to Hell (1960)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Trip to hell |
| Original title | The Last Voyage |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andrew L. Stone |
| script | Andrew L. Stone |
| production | Andrew L. Stone Virginia L. Stone |
| music | Andrew L. Stone Virginia L. Stone |
| camera | Hal Mohr |
| cut | Virginia L. Stone |
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Hell trip (Original title: The Last Voyage ) is an American film by Andrew L. Stone from 1960. This also wrote the script, composed the music and produced the film. The leading roles are starring Robert Stack , Dorothy Malone and George Sanders . In the USA, the film was first seen on the screen on February 19, 1960, and in the Federal Republic of Germany on September 1, 1960.
action
Around 1,500 passengers enjoy the voyage on the luxury ship Claridon until a fire breaks out in the boiler room. The crew succeeds in putting out the fire, but a safety valve has melted down, so that the boiler soon explodes and a huge hole rips through all the decks of the ship. The passengers panic. The Henderson family was hit particularly hard. Your cabin is right in the center of the explosion. Laurie Henderson is trapped under an iron girder and daughter Jill is separated from her parents by a hole in the floor.
Captain Adams is unclear whether he should make the lifeboats ready now or trust that the steamer can stay afloat until the longed-for help - SOS is constantly being sent - has arrived. The pumps are now no longer able to cope with the water entering the boiler room. The ship is leaning to one side and the time of the sinking is foreseeable.
Henderson manages to pull his daughter over to him through the hole in the floor, but the iron girder holding his wife captive defies his efforts. As the bow of the ship sinks deeper and deeper into the water, the passengers ruthlessly fight for places in the lifeboats. One of the chimneys overturns and buries the captain. Just at the moment when a rescue ship approaches, the luxury liner sinks into the depths of the ocean. However, the Henderson family gets away with their lives.
additions
The exterior shots were taken in Santa Monica Bay , California . The Île de France , the former flagship of the French Line , served as a floating film set for a day charter of 4,000 dollars. During filming, it was partially flooded and the front chimney and parts of the interior were blown up. There was a legal dispute between the film company and the shipping company. In the film, the ship is called the SS Claridon because the French Line had requested that neither the name of their former flagship nor any reference to the shipping company should be seen in the disaster film. After the work was completed, the ship was drained again and towed to the Japanese port of Osaka for demolition .
criticism
The lexicon of international films draws the following conclusion: "The terrifying depiction of the catastrophe as an end in itself reduces the value of all the cinematic effort considerably."
Awards
Höllenfahrt was nominated for two film awards, but remained unprivileged. Leading actor Robert Stack was nominated for the Laurel Award in 1960 in the Top Action Performance category, but was left behind by Gary Cooper ( you came to Cordura ) . The film technician Augie Lohman received an Oscar nomination for Best Special Effects in 1961 .
source
Program for the film: Das Neue Film-Programm , published by Heinrich Klemmer Verlag of the same name, Mannheim, without a number
Web links
- Harrowing in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Five pictures from the film at Cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lexicon of international films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 from 1988, p. 1653.