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Ten Seconds to Hell(Movie, 1959)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 33min | Genres: Drama, War, Action
Ten Seconds to HellRating: 3.1/5 (with 1212 votes)
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 at... ()
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About Ten Seconds to Hell

Two rivals from a German bomb squad are left to deactivate duds in postwar Berlin.

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Additional Information

Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 11 languages: Catalan (CA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Portuguese (PT), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 06/16/1959
Director: Robert Aldrich
Screenwriter: Robert Aldrich
Film Editor: Henry B. Richardson
Director of Photography: Ernest Laszlo
Composer: Muir Mathieson
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Tout près de Satan"
"The Phoenix"
Budget: 1,100,000 USD
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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