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High Hell (1958)

High Hell poster
Directed by
Burt Balaban
Genre
adventure film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 27m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of people work at a mining camp in the Canadian Rockies. They deal with personal conflicts and danger in a remote and harsh environment.

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What happens

High Hell is a 1958 American film set in the Canadian Rockies. It was a British B-movie intended for North American audiences, with exteriors filmed in the Swiss Jungfrau and interiors on a British sound stage. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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