No-one would ever accuse "Fire Down Below" of being a good film but
photographed in Cinemascope and Technicolour on location in the
Caribbean it's certainly a handsome one, Throw in Robert Mitchum, Rita
Hayworth and Jack Lemmon and it becomes a film with star quality as
well. The plot is as old as the hills as pals Mitchum and Lemmon fall
out over Hayworth, the woman they are transporting 'from nowhere to
nowhere'. The film generates a little excitement, (though not much),
when Lemmon gets trapped in a ship that is about to blow up. The
terrible dialogue is courtesy of Irwin Shaw from a book by Max Catto and
director Robert Parrish was hardly the man to turn a pig's ear into a
silk purse.
Thursday, 17 January 2019
FIRE DOWN BELOW *
No-one would ever accuse "Fire Down Below" of being a good film but
photographed in Cinemascope and Technicolour on location in the
Caribbean it's certainly a handsome one, Throw in Robert Mitchum, Rita
Hayworth and Jack Lemmon and it becomes a film with star quality as
well. The plot is as old as the hills as pals Mitchum and Lemmon fall
out over Hayworth, the woman they are transporting 'from nowhere to
nowhere'. The film generates a little excitement, (though not much),
when Lemmon gets trapped in a ship that is about to blow up. The
terrible dialogue is courtesy of Irwin Shaw from a book by Max Catto and
director Robert Parrish was hardly the man to turn a pig's ear into a
silk purse.
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