Fire Down Below

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Fire Down Below

1957

1h 56m

Drama

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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Georgan G

Rita & Robert & Jack did their best, but the flow was off & on. The background is beautiful, but the ending is lame.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

09/25/24

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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

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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

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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

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Audience Member

year s/b 1957 not 1917

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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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

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Robert Parrish

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Irena

Robert Mitchum

Felix

Jack Lemmon

Tony

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Harbour Master

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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
Producer: Irving Allen, Albert R. Broccoli
Screenwriter: Max Catto, Irwin Shaw
Production Co: Columbia Pictures Corporation, Warwick Film Productions
Genre: Drama
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 27, 2010
Runtime: 1h 56m

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