Jack Palance Jeff Chandler Martine Carol Robert Cornthwaite Virginia Baker Richard Wattis Wesley Addy Dave Willock James Goodwin Nancy Lee
Cinematography
Ernest Laszlo
Edited by
Henry Richardson
Music by
Muir Mathieson Kenneth V. Jones Richard Farrell
Production companies
UFA Studios Seven Arts–Hammer Films
Distributed by
United Artists
Release date
16 June 1959 (1959-06-16)
Running time
93 min.
Countries
United Kingdom West Germany
Language
English
Budget
$1.1 million[1]
Box office
331,938 admissions (France)[2]
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.[3]
^Alain Silver and James Ursini, Whatever Happened to Robert Aldrich?, Limelight, 1995 p 252
^French box office results for Robert Aldrich films at Box Office Story
^"Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)". Spout.com. Retrieved 18 August 2008.
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