Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)
April 23, 1959Release Date
Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)
April 23, 1959Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Jack Palance
Eric Koertner
Jeff Chandler
Karl Wirtz
Martine Carol
Margot Hofer
Robert Cornthwaite
Franz Loeffler
Dave Willock
Peter Tillig
Wesley Addy
Wolfgang Sulke
Virginia Baker
Frau Bauer
Richard Wattis
Major Haven
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Details.
Release DateApril 23, 1959
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 33m
Content RatingNR
Budget$1,100,000
Filming LocationsBerlin, Germany
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Ten Seconds To Hell (released in the UK as The Phoenix) is a 1959 British and West German film directed by Robert Aldrich, based on Lawrence P. Bachmann's novel The Phoenix. The Hammer Films/UFA joint production stars Jack Palance, Jeff Chandler and Martine Carol.
Set in the aftermath of World War II, the film focuses on a half-dozen German POWs who return to a devastated Berlin and find employment as a bomb disposal squad, tasked with clearing the city of unexploded Allied bombs. Their fatalistic duties lead them to form a macabre pact; a tontine into which they donate a part of their individual paychecks into a pool that those still surviving at the end of three months divide the money. Eventually, only two men are left, and they are both in love with the same woman.
Robert Aldrich's direction is noted for its meticulous attention to the techniques of bomb deactivation and disposal.