Hell and High Water

A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine spectacle and cold war heroics.

Cast

Richard Widmark

as Capt. Adam Jones

Bella Darvi

as Denise Montel

Victor Francen

as Prof. Montel

Cameron Mitchell

as 'Ski' Brodski

Gene Evans

as Chief Holter

David Wayne

as Tugboat Walker

Stephen Bekassy

as Neuman

Richard Loo

as Hakada Fujimori

Robert Adler

as Welles (uncredited)

Eugene Borden

as French Reporter (uncredited)

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