Hell is Empty
Movie | |
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Original title | Hell is Empty |
Country of production |
United Kingdom of Czechoslovakia |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1967 |
length | 109 minutes |
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Director |
John Ainsworth Bernard Knowles |
script | Bernard Knowles John Ainsworth John F. Fowler |
production |
Michael Eland Ronald Rietti |
music | Georges Garvarentz |
camera | Jan Stallich |
cut | Jim Connock |
occupation | |
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Hell Is Empty is a British-Czechoslovak crime film with a large international cast, which was partly made during the temporary thaw in communist Czechoslovakia. Directed by Bernard Knowles and John Ainsworth . The story is based on the novel of the same name (1958) by JF Straker.
action
Major Morton heads a gang of criminals who carry out a daring robbery on a construction company in Prague. But a lot goes wrong in the coup, two security guards are murdered in the attack. Now the men have the police on their heels, and soon the gangsters will be on the run. In a remote mansion, the crooks seem to find an ideal hiding place. A family named Grant, consisting of five men and women, lives here, who, through the intrusion of the heavily armed gang, are now experiencing the terror on their own bodies and becoming prisoners within their own four walls. But soon something happens that upsets the gangsters' plan: One of them falls in love with the pretty daughter of the house ...
Production notes
Filming began in 1965 under veteran director Bernard Knowles , who was later replaced by John Ainsworth , and took place mostly in 1966. As a result of the surprising deaths of the French women Patricia Viterbo (November 1966) and Martine Carol , the leading actress (February 1967), filming had to be interrupted several times. The world premiere took place in December 1967 at an unknown location, the British mass start was in June 1969. The film never ran in Germany.
useful information
The title is borrowed from a quote from William Shakespeare's The Tempest . There it says: "Hell is empty, and the devils are here!" (in German: Hell is empty and the devils are here! )
Web links
- Hell Is Empty in the Internet Movie Database (English)