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      Fire Down Below

      1957 1h 56m Drama List
      Reviews 28% 100+ Ratings Audience Score Set in the Caribbean, U.S. expatriates Tony (Jack Lemmon) and Felix (Robert Mitchum) cruise around the ocean and eke out a meager subsistence using their small trawling boat to transport cargo. When they take on the job of smuggling illegal-immigrant beauty Irena (Rita Hayworth) to another island, the two friends find their friendship torn apart by their mutual romantic feelings toward her. Though jealousy has split them apart, fate intervenes to bring the two back together. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Jan 02 Buy Now

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      Audience Member From producer Albert R. Broccoli, who'd go on to launch the James Bond franchise five years later with ""Dr. No", comes an enjoyable adventure film about low level smugglers Robert Mitchum and Jack Lemmon in the Caribbean. The two are hired by a wealthy American businessman to take his European lady friend, the lovely Rita Hayworth, to a nearby island while he flies back to Detroit on business. Things get complicated when Lemmon and Hayworth become an item, which ends with Mitchum and Lemmon parting ways. Bob Mitchum finds himself a new partner and the two take a shady smuggling offer that goes badly and the plot thickens from there. The adventure aspects are fun and the CinemaScope tropical setting are terrific, but a rather silly melodramatic love triangle nearly undoes an otherwise solid action/adventure film. FUN FACT: While filming in Trinidad and Tobago, Bob Mitchum was inspired to record his classic lounge album, "Calypso - Is Like So..." Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member If you like old movies and enjoy Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon and/or Rita Hayworth...then watch this movie! The first half is a little silly, but it does get better during the 2nd half. Strong performances by all 3 people. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member The beginning of this move is slow and slightly corny, aside from the usual brilliance of Jack Lemmon who can make any role funny, but once it got going I really got invested in the characters and it was an altogether enjoyable film. Not one of my favorites, but worth seeing again. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member year s/b 1957 not 1917 Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member A film of two halves. First the boring love interest, then the semi-decent suspense scenes. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review dave j Thursday, October 7, 2010 (1957) Fire Down Below DRAMA Not bad soaper which is better than alot that're coming out as of late stars Robert Mitchum and Jack Lemmon bickering over a lady, Irene played by Rita Hayworth! Requires patience with a superficial ending! Without the revelation near the end, this one would've been a stinker! 3 out of 4 Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Chris Bennion Times (UK) There are four stars in this good-looking adventure drama: Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon, Rita Hayworth, and the Trinidadian location. Each sizzles nicely, turning humdrum fare into something rather more enjoyable. Jul 10, 2023 Full Review Clyde Gilmour Maclean's Magazine Rita Hayworth returns after three years' absence from the screen and proves that she has lost none of her knack at presenting a performance as inept, wooden and unintentionally farcical as anything she ever did in the past Nov 22, 2019 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews The film gets right the Caribbean atmosphere (filmed in Trinidad) but nearly drowns over its turgid melodramatics and how perfunctory it's all played out. Rated: C Jun 14, 2008 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis Set in the Caribbean, U.S. expatriates Tony (Jack Lemmon) and Felix (Robert Mitchum) cruise around the ocean and eke out a meager subsistence using their small trawling boat to transport cargo. When they take on the job of smuggling illegal-immigrant beauty Irena (Rita Hayworth) to another island, the two friends find their friendship torn apart by their mutual romantic feelings toward her. Though jealousy has split them apart, fate intervenes to bring the two back together.
      Director
      Robert Parrish
      Screenwriter
      Max Catto, Irwin Shaw
      Production Co
      Columbia Pictures Corporation, Warwick Film Productions
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English (United Kingdom)
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jul 27, 2010
      Runtime
      1h 56m
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