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Hell's Horizon

  • 1955
  • Approved
  • 1h 20m
IMDb RATING
5.2/10
164
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Hell's Horizon (1955)
ActionDramaRomanceWar

Interaction among men of a bombing squadron during the Korean War.Interaction among men of a bombing squadron during the Korean War.Interaction among men of a bombing squadron during the Korean War.

  • Director
    • Tom Gries
  • Writer
    • Tom Gries
  • Stars
    • John Ireland
    • Marla English
    • Bill Williams
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.2/10
    164
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Tom Gries
    • Writer
      • Tom Gries
    • Stars
      • John Ireland
      • Marla English
      • Bill Williams
    • 12User reviews
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    John Ireland
    John Ireland
    • Capt. John Merrill
    Marla English
    Marla English
    • Sami
    Bill Williams
    Bill Williams
    • Paul Jenkins
    Hugh Beaumont
    Hugh Beaumont
    • Sgt. Al Trask
    Larry Pennell
    Larry Pennell
    • Buddy Lewis
    Chet Baker
    Chet Baker
    • Jockey
    William Schallert
    William Schallert
    • Capt. Ben Morgan
    Jerry Paris
    Jerry Paris
    • Cpl. Pete Kinshaw
    Paul Levitt
    • Sgt. Earl Maddox
    John Murphy
    • Lt. Harry Murphy
    Wray Davis
    • Lt. Ed Houseman
    Mark Scott
    • Col. Baer
    Kenne Duncan
    Kenne Duncan
    • Maj. Naylor
    Don Burnett
    Don Burnett
    • Lt. Chapman
    Stanley Adams
    Stanley Adams
    • Dixie
    • Director
      • Tom Gries
    • Writer
      • Tom Gries
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    9clanciai

    Mission impossible in North Korea

    This is not just a B-feature with second rate actors making the best of a dreary story about bombing in bad weather and meeting with disaster, but actually a very interesting drama with many significant ingredients. Perhaps the most interesting thing about this film is the music, as this film introduced Chet Baker, and he plays the trumpet quite a lot in the beginning. John Ireland makes a good job as the "true grit" captain, and all the other actors are excellent as well. This group of fliers are stationed on Okinawa in 1952 and having a dull time, when they get the assignment of bombing a strategic bridge in North Korea, because this is the Korea war. The mission is carried out with looming complications and some unnecessary risk-taking, and there are casualties. So there is a significant tragic element as well. But it's a first class drama, although generally brushed aside and neglected as second rate, but it will hold a position on par with the two John Wayne aircraft disaster films some years earler, but it's Chet Baker and that trumpeter that you will remember.
    4boblipton

    Generic

    A. flight crew goes on an unescorted bombing run on the bridges over the Yalu River during the Korean War.

    It's an interesting cast, with John Ireland, William Schallert, Hugh Beaumont, and Bill Williams in the crew. One of the problems with it is that it fits neatly into the World War Two Flyer Squadrom genre of the period. Change a few lines of dialogue, and convert Marla English from an Okinawan to a Scottish lassie, and you have a decent movie of the previous war. Since most of it is shot on a stage decorated like a bomber's cockpit, it's clearly a very cheap feature, with little to recommend it.
    5CinemaSerf

    Hell's Horizon

    This time it is the poster that is a bit misleading - it suggests a sultriness that is completely lacking from this documentary style tale of an American bombing crew during the Korean War. John Ireland leads the cast as the rather obnoxious "Capt. Merrill" tasked with a mission to destroy a crucial bridge over a river. The film depicts their efforts and their more perilous and suspenseful return journey with fuel gushing from an hole in the wing. Marla English ("Sami") provides what little glamour this dryly produced wartime drama allows, and though it does feature some interesting actuality footage, this film is all a bit on the flat side with little to distinguish it.
    7shoobe01-1

    Not at all bad for a B war movie

    About the best use of stock footage I've seen. Make no mistake, there are ZERO shots of aircraft flying, taking off, even exteriors on the ramp that are shot for this movie, or even models. It's all tent city on a soundstage, interior of a (probably real but scrapped surplus) B29, and stock footage.

    But it sorta works. They voice over things like the crew checking out the plane as the stock footage isn't that great resolution, it's mid shots, and one 50s USAF guy in all his gear looks very much like another.

    Falls apart a bit in the action scenes where the footage cannot decide what altitude they are at (and it is scripted, sorta matters), the enemy aircraft are several /different/ USAF aircraft, and... oh, they bomb China. That also was briefed, but they forget when picking impact footage.

    Well acted, pretty well scripted. Okay photography, and the in-aircraft scenes are awfully well done; the pilot ones are the only with pretty soundstage blocking, others feel very personal. Apparently had a good advisor, everyone does stuff that at least feels very authentic, everything deliberate.

    Yes, the Korean love interest is super duper a white chick, and it's not just racist but is distractingly wrong.

    Otherwise the worst thing about the film is the editing. It's just indifferent. Many shots too long, some too short and it cuts between unimportant things. The stock footage also falls prey to this; it could have used 90% less of it, and done almost everything from inside the aircraft, not just as a character study but as claustrophobic action. Those were already the best bits.
    2planktonrules

    As Korean as Taco Bell!

    I am not the most politically correct person out there, but sometimes you certainly can understand folks being upset at a film. Take "Hell's Horizon", a movie set in the Korean War. The female lead (Marla English) is supposed to be Korean....but she seems about as Korean as a Taco Bell! She's obviously a Caucasian and they made no attempt to get her to look or sound Asian. The same can be said about some of the other 'Koreans'...folks who, in some cases, have painted kin and black wigs! The result of which is just stupid....as well as offensive...but mostly stupid.

    So is the movie worth seeing despite all this foolishness? Not especially. The first portion of the film is particularly hard to get past....as the 'soldiers' seemed about as professional as the Three Stooges and it was hard to believe these were America's finest! Terrible writing is the problem with all this. And, sadly, the stupid dialog simply continues until this dopey film reaches the end. The folks who fought in this war deserved better than this drivel.

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    • Trivia
      The aircraft used in the film is a B-50, a modified version of the venerable B-29 Superfortress of World War II fame. B-29s were used in the Korean War early on, but by 1952 had been mostly phased out for the somewhat updated B-50 version.
    • Goofs
      The large aircraft in the background on the movie poster appear to be multiple Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses, which did not enter active service in the U.S. Air Force until 1955, several years after the movie takes place (1952). Also, the mission is specifically assigned as a single plane mission because of the accuracy required in the bombing of the target.
    • Quotes

      Paul Jenkins: You got a Distinguished Flying Cross, let's see you do some distinguished flying.

    • Connections
      Featured in Let's Get Lost (1988)

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    • Release date
      • December 1955 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Orizontul infernului
    • Filming locations
      • Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA
    • Production company
      • Gravis Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 20 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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