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Release Date: 1961 Cast: Frank Sinatra, Martin Brandt, Alexander Scourby, Cathy Lewis, Kerwin Mathews, Louis Merrill, Marcel Dalio, Grégoire Aslan, Barbara Luna, Spencer Tracy, Bernie Hamilton, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Categories: Movies, Adventure Drama, Adventure, Action, Action/Adventure, Disaster The Devil at 4 O'Clock is a 1961 disaster film with elevated themes, starring Spencer Tracy and Frank Sinatra and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Based upon an eponymous novel by Max Catto, film was a precursor to the disaster movies of the 1970s, such as The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake, and The Towering Inferno.
Set on fictional tropical island of Talua (about 500 miles from Tahiti), Father Doonan (Spencer Tracy), has been relieved of his duties by Father Perreau (Kerwin Mathews). Father Doonan has fallen out of favor with the island's residents because he stumbled on the island's carefully... MORE
The Devil at 4 O'Clock is a 1961 disaster film with elevated themes, starring Spencer Tracy and Frank Sinatra and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Based upon an eponymous novel by Max Catto, film was a precursor to the disaster movies of the 1970s, such as The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake, and The Towering Inferno.
Set on fictional tropical island of Talua (about 500 miles from Tahiti), Father Doonan (Spencer Tracy), has been relieved of his duties by Father Perreau (Kerwin Mathews). Father Doonan has fallen out of favor with the island's residents because he stumbled on the island's carefully hidden secret (Hansen's Disease or leprosy) among the children of the islands. He built a hospital for the children up the island's volcano. Meanwhile, three convicts Harry (Frank Sinatra), Charlie (Bernie Hamilton) and Marcel (Gregoire Aslan), enroute to Tahiti, make an unexpected stop on the island and they are put to work at leper hospital. All is seemingly normal, until the island's volcano begins to erupt and the Governor (Alexander Scourby) orders an evacuation. The governor cannot reach the freighter that just left the island and plans to evacuate the island with one seaplane and a LESS
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