Company fire belt

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Movie
German title Company fire belt
Original title Voyage to the bottom of the sea
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1961
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 16/12
Rod
Director Irwin Allen
script Irwin Allen
Charles Bennett
production Irwin Allen
music Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter
camera Winton up
occupation

Firebelt is an American science fiction film for which Irwin Allen is responsible for the production, direction and, together with Charles Bennett, the script. The doomsday film was released in theaters by 20th Century Fox in 1961 . Walter Pidgeon portrays Admiral Harriman Nelson and Robert Sterling the captain Lee Crane of the submarine Seaview. Other actors were Joan Fontaine , Barbara Eden , Michael Ansara and Peter Lorre .

The film was followed by the 110-episode American science fiction television series The Seaview - On a Secret Mission . In Germany the film was also released in cinemas under the title When space began to burn . It started on September 7, 1961 in Germany and July 12, 1961 in the United States.

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Admiral Nelson is in his new, self-designed, built and financed, nuclear high-tech research submarine with a submarine assessment committee on board at the North Pole when a meteor shower ignites the Van Allen Belt into a belt of fire. This leads to an increasing global warming of the earth and threatens to wipe out life on it in a few days. Admiral Nelson immediately carried out calculations with his friend Lucius Emery and came to the conclusion that he could push the belt of fire far into space with one of his atomic warheads. However, according to his calculations, this must be shot down from the Mariana Trench at 2:00 p.m. on August 29th. Immediately, under a red-tinted sky that heralds the apocalypse, he sets off with his boat to a UN crisis meeting in New York. There he submitted his daring plan to the politicians and scientists present. However, they are of the opinion that the fire belt would be thrown onto the earth rather than into space by an atomic explosion and would dissolve by itself one day later, on August 30th, at a certain temperature.

Convinced of his plan, Admiral Nelson hurries back to his boat and makes his way around South America to the Mariana Trench. Time is running out. Since he cannot reach the president by radio to confirm his plan, he devises a plan to tap into the submarine cable off Rio. He personally sends the captain to the cable with a religious fanatic from the submarine evaluation committee in modern diving equipment. However, the two divers are targeted and attacked by a large submarine octopus. Despite all the evils, they manage to connect to London. The viewer is spared the technical details. Admiral Nelson learns from London that Washington DC is no more. The responsibility now rests solely on his shoulders. Due to an act of sabotage by a member of the commission, the boat gets caught in a minefield on the way to save the world. During the liberation, the crew loses the valued, brave sailor "Little Jimmy".

In addition, Admiral Nelson has to discover that his company is endangered by death threats and attempts by the team. With presence of mind, he lets the mutinous part of the crew transfer to a ship that has been found and has become pilotless due to lack of water. This causes the actual captain of the submarine to doubt the state of mind of the admiral. Just as he is about to relegate him to the infirmary, the boat is attacked by other submarines. They want to stop the admiral in order to prevent the launch of a nuclear missile and thus the worst. As an evasive maneuver, the admiral makes the boat disappear 1000 meters into the depth. There, however, the boat is in danger of being devoured by another giant octopus. This can be quickly driven away with electric shocks. Resurfaced, the other submarines have disappeared, but the outside temperature rose faster than expected. The hopes of the other scientists that the fire belt will dissolve on its own have vanished into thin air. Encouraged by this, the Admiral's reputation with the crew is restored. The Mariana Trench is reached shortly before the calculated time. But now the religious fanatic thwarts the admiral's plan. With an oversized hand grenade, he succeeds in usurping the command. He sees God's way predetermined and wants to prevent the admiral from preventing the imminent apocalypse. While the admiral involved the fanatic in conversations, the captain managed, unnoticed by the fanatic, to attach a time fuse to one of the nuclear missiles shortly before 2 p.m. The rocket climbs into the sky, punctually for the second. The world of the fanatic is perishing. The crew set off on the deserved journey home under a blue sky again.

success

Unaffected by the mixed reviews, the film, which released in American cinemas in June 1961, had more than a production cost of two million US dollars with seven million at the box office by the fall of the same year.

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