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

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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