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Five Came Back
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
John Farrow
Written by
Jerry Cady
Dalton Trumbo
Nathanael West
Based on
story by Richard Carroll
Produced by
Robert Sisk
Starring
Chester Morris
Lucille Ball
Wendy Barrie
John Carradine
Allen Jenkins
Joseph Calleia
C. Aubrey Smith
Kent Taylor
Patric Knowles
Elisabeth Risdon
Casey Johnson
Dick Hogan
Cinematography
Nicholas Musuraca
Edited by
Harry Marker
Music by
Roy Webb
Production company
RKO Radio Pictures
Distributed by
RKO Radio Pictures
Release date
June 23, 1939 (1939-06-23)
Running time
73 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$225,000[1]
Box office
$721,000[1]
Five Came Back is a 1939 American black-and-white melodrama from RKO Radio Pictures produced by Robert Sisk, directed by John Farrow, written by Jerry Cady, Dalton Trumbo, and Nathanael West, and starring Chester Morris and Lucille Ball. The film was photographed by cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca. Although considered a B movie, the positive notices received by Ball helped launch her career as an A-list actress.[2]Five Came Back is considered a precursor of the disaster film genre.[3] The supporting cast features Wendy Barrie, John Carradine, C. Aubrey Smith, Kent Taylor, and Patric Knowles.
In 1948 Five Came Back was remade (differing only in minor details) as the Mexican film Los que volvieron and again in 1956 by producer-director Farrow as Back from Eternity, starring Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg and Rod Steiger.
^ abTrevlin, C. J. "Richard B. Jewell's RKO film grosses, 1929–51: The C. J. Trevlin Ledger: A comment." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Volume 14, Issue 1, 1994.
^Ball 1997, p. 92.
^Cite error: The named reference De la Hoz p. 189 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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