Green Hell (1940)
- Directed by
- James Whale
- Genre
- drama film, adventure film, treasure hunt film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 4.5 of 10 from 12 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A group of explorers venture into a South American jungle looking for treasure. They face dangers from the environment and each other.
suspensefuladventurousdatedsluggishartificialvisually ambitiousfatalisticstilted
What happens
Green Hell is a 1940 American jungle adventure film directed by James Whale, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Joan Bennett. Green Hell was given a lavish production by Universal Pictures, 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 was constructed. Having spent a great deal of money on a film that 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, the 1941 World War II romantic melodrama They Dare Not Love, starring George Brent as an exiled Austrian prince fighting the Nazis. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Jungle Mystery (1932)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.