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form y separately published work icon Hell Below Zero single work   film/TV   thriller   adventure  
Adaptation of The White South Hammond Innes , 1949 single work novel
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Co-written with American script-writer Max Trell.

Richard Maibaum is credited with 'adaptation'.
Issue Details: First known date: 1954... 1954 Hell Below Zero
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A largely negative review in the London Times offers the following synopsis:

'Judie (Miss Joan Tetzel) suspects that the death of her father, the head of the Bland-Nordahl Whaling Company, was due not to suicide but murder. She travels to the Antarctic to find out the truth, and Duncan (Mr. Ladd) signs on as first mate. The villainy of Erik Bland (Mr. Stanley Baker) would have been exposed earlier than it is had not the film the merciful habit of dropping the whole nonsensical business every now and again in favour of illustrated lectures on whales and whaling.'

Source:

'Fernandel's New Film', The Times, 18 January 1954, p.4.

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