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Green Hell is a american film of genre Adventure directed by James Whale released in USA on 26 january 1940 with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Green Hell (1940)

Green Hell
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Released in USA 26 january 1940
Length 1h27
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Adventure,    Romance
Rating57% 2.852482.852482.852482.852482.85248

Green Hell is a 1940 jungle adventure film directed by James Whale with photography by Karl Freund. The cast includes Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Bennett, John Howard, George Sanders, Alan Hale, Sr., Vincent Price and Ray Mala. The film was released by Universal Studios.

Green Hell was given a lavish production by Universal, which built a massive indoor jungle set on a sound stage. An Inca Temple 125 feet high, 225 feet wide, and 45,000 square feet in area were constructed. Having spent big bucks on a film which turned out to be a critical and financial disaster, Universal used the set again, recycling it into an Egyptian temple for The Mummy's Hand (1940).

Whale made only one more completed film after this, a 1941 World War II romantic melodrama They Dare Not Love, starring George Brent, improbably cast as an exiled Austrian prince fighting the Nazis.

Synopsis

A group of adventurers journey deep into the South American jungle in search of ancient Incan treasure. A beautiful woman, brought to their camp by hired bearers, has come to join her husband, a newer member of the group, who was recently killed by hostile natives. As the months pass, jealousies and tempers flare as fights break out over the woman. The Incan treasure is eventually found but the treaure-seekers, now united by a common enemy, are about to be attacked by hordes of fierce natives armed with bows and poisoned arrows.

Actors

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

(Keith Brandon)
Vincent Price

(David Richardson)
Joan Bennett

(Stephanie Richardson)
Alan Hale

(Dr. Emil 'Nils' Loren)
George Sanders

(Forrester)
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