Pluskylang
Great Film overall
Usamah Harvey
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Zandra
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
climbingtiger957
started out enjoying this film,plenty of fights decent cast ,then for me it turns to the usual shock tactics of vintage whale slaughtering .films like this have no "this may contain upsetting scenes "why ???,believe me I'm no lightweight but stuff like this UN-nerves me ,and yep i know if you don't like it turn it off ,SO I DID !!reading reviews on this ,people saying it was an interesting view of foregone whale hunting ,well who want's to see that!!.they are beautiful creatures with very much the same traits as humans ,there are times when they are aggressive when they have been harpooned by some idiot as they are trying to protect there young with a harpoon in them ,anyway that's my rant i wanted to write this because people may not know what this film is about before they watch it ,being called "hell below zero"not "slaughtering of the whales" and if you find this interesting i recommend you pop up the slaughterhouse for an afternoon,that should make your'e day. freaks.
Chris Gaskin
Hell Below Zero is one of three British movies Alan Ladd (Shane) appeared in. The Black Night was one of the others. I enjoyed this.A man signs on a whaling ship and one of the reasons for this is to help a woman find her Dad's killer. The expedition takes them to the frozen wastes of the Antarctic, where they track the killer down on a rival whaling ship. Not surprisingly, Ladd also falls in love with the woman.There is some good photography in this movie, which is shot well in colour. I first thought is was black and white when I purchased it.The rest of the cast includes Joan Tetzel as the love interest, Stanley Baker (Zulu) as the murderer and Basil Sydney.Hell Below Zero is a good way to spend 90 minutes one afternoon or evening. Very good.Rating: 3 stars out of 5.
Single-Black-Male
Although the quality of Alan Ladd's films went down after 'Shane', I watched this simply because it was written by Alec Coppel. He wrote this in the same year that he wrote another Alan Ladd film, 'The Black Knight', and then went on four years later to co-write 'Vertigo'. Three years prior to 'Hell Below Zero', Coppel wrote 'No Highway in the Sky' starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich. This is a throwaway brain kind of film. When you watch it, you realise that the major studios were just padding out Ladd's career with projects like this so that he could pay his bills, fill out his c.v. and stay in the limelight. Apart from that, there is no substance to the film whatsoever.
derekparry
The story of a whale factory captain who has allegedly committed suicide but to the disbelief of his daughter who is going to travel to the Antartic to prove otherwise. Not a bad start but then Alan Ladd enters and it goes downhill from there.It's not all bad. Stanley Baker plays the bad guy well and the climax is worth waiting for...just. On the way you will endure some graphic scenes of a whaling operation in action. This was probably far more palatable in 1953 than it is now. Also there is a fight scene that really reminded me of the 60's Batman TV series - but perhaps naffer.Approach with caution.....and not at all if you like whales.
