Jones decides to go ashore and watch for the bomber's takeoff at his signal, the submarine will surface and try to shoot it down. Unfortunately, Ho-Sin realizes Chin Lee is a spy and beats him to death before Jones can intervene.
Fooled, the captive reveals that the aircraft is going to drop an atomic bomb on either Korea or Manchuria the next day, with the blame placed on the United States. Needing more information, they trick it out of Ho-Sin by sending ship's cook Chin Lee (Wong Artarne), dressed in a Chinese uniform, into the same room. Back aboard the submarine, Jones is worried because he recognized an American B-29 bomber sitting on an airstrip. Denise detects an extremely high level of radioactivity but is forced to shoot and kill a Chinese soldier who stumbles upon her. After a firefight with Red Chinese soldiers, the patrol returns to the submarine with a captive, a pilot named Ho-Sin, and discover the existence of another island which could be their target.ĭuring a storm en route to the island, Montel is injured, and insists Jones take Denise in his place. They follow the Kiang Ching to an island Jones and Montel land to investigate, but find insignificant radioactivity. Jones wants to turn back, but Montel points out that their contract specifies that he won't be paid unless Montel is satisfied. After several tense hours of waiting each other out, Jones finally decides to surface, ramming and sinking the enemy submarine. Unable to fire back with his own untested torpedo tubes, Jones dives the boat to the sea bottom, hoping to hide the Chinese follow. On the voyage, they are detected by a Red Chinese submarine which fires torpedoes at them. News arrives that the Kiang Ching has sailed despite Jones' protests that the submarine's torpedo tubes have not been inspected and tested yet, and are therefore too dangerous to use, there is no choice but to leave port and pursue the freighter. Montel travels with his assistant, Professor Denise Gerard ( Bella Darvi) Jones reluctantly agrees, providing that the submarine is armed, and that he is allowed to hire some of his former navy shipmates. They must have proof, and so offer Jones $45,000 if he will command a World War II-era Japanese submarine to follow a Communist Chinese freighter Kiang Ching, which has been making suspicious deliveries in that area. Jones meets Professor Montel and a small group of international scientists, businessmen, and statesmen who suspect the Communist Chinese are building a secret atomic base on an island somewhere north of Japan. Navy USS Bowfin (SS-287) submarine commander Adam Jones ( Richard Widmark) arrives in Tokyo after receiving a mysterious package containing $5,000. Renowned French scientist Professor Montel ( Victor Francen) goes missing authorities believe that he and four other Western scientists have defected behind the Iron Curtain.įormer U.S. Shortly thereafter it was indicated that this atomic reaction, according to scientific reports, originated in a remote area in North Pacific waters, somewhere between the northern tip of the Japanese Islands and the Arctic Circle. In the summer of 1953, it was announced that an atomic bomb of foreign origin had been exploded somewhere outside the United States. The film was made to showcase CinemaScope in the confined sets of a submarine, and is not related to the 1933 film by the same name.īefore the credits, an off-screen voice-over narrates: Hell and High Water is a 1954 American Technicolor Cold War drama film from 20th Century Fox, directed by Samuel Fuller and starring Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, and Victor Francen.
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