Hell Below (1933)
1933 will be famed for one picture !
On leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married, but is the daughter of his submarine's commander. Friction between the two officers becomes intolerable once at sea and after Commander Toler is forced to abandon Tommy's best friend topside while the sub dives to escape enemy planes, Tommy is no longer able to contain his anger.
- Date of release
- 1933-06-08
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (16)
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Romance, Drama, War
- Director
- Jack Conway
Casting
- Robert Montgomery — Lieut. Thomas Knowlton USN
- Walter Huston — Lieut. Comdr. T.J. Toler USN
- Madge Evans — Joan
- Jimmy Durante — Ptomaine' - Ships Cook
- Eugene Pallette — Mac Dougal - Chief Torpedo Man
- Robert Young — Lieut. (JG) 'Brick' Walters
- Edwin Styles — Herbert Standish - Flight Comdr.
- John Lee Mahin — Lieut. (JG) 'Speed' Nelson
- David Newell — Lieut. (JG) Radford
- Sterling Holloway — Seaman Jenks
- Charles Irwin — Buck Teeth Sergeant
Interesting facts
Hell Below is a 1933 American MGM pre-Code film set in the Adriatic Sea during World War I about submarine warfare based on Commander Edward Ellsberg's novel Pigboats. The film stars Robert Montgomery, Walter Huston, Robert Young, Madge Evans and Jimmy Durante.
Production
On January 5, 1933, just after production on the film began, the entertainment trade paper The Hollywood Reporter announced that Madge Evans had "started work on it yesterday" and that MGM had changed the picture's intended release name, Pigboats, to the more sensational title Hell Below.
The USS S-31 played the fictional U.S. submarine AL-14. MGM purchased the USS Moody (DD-277), a World War I-era destroyer destined for scrapping due to the London Naval Treaty limits on navy strength, for US$35,000. The firm of Merritt-Chapman & Scott was hired to sink the ship to simulate the torpedoing of an Austro-Hungarian minelayer. Principal location photography took place in Honolulu and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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