Ten Seconds to Hell – 1959

A Hammer-Seven Arts production released by United Artists Copyright 1959 by Hammer Film Productions Ltd.
MPAA Approved Certificate No. 19235
Klangfilm-Eurocord Sound System
Processed at Universum Film AG, Berlin
Made in the U.F.A. Film Studios, Tempelhof, Berlin
Black & White 93 mins

Storyline

In Berlin after the war, a group of bomb-disposal experts pay into a kitty, with the agreement that the last surviving member of the team will collect the lot. One by one, their numbers dwindle…..

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Crew


Function	Credited	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Productions
	Click a link for more info					93	Credited	Uncredited	Total
Ast. Director	Rene Dupont	29	10 Oct 1929	10.10.1929		93	3	2	5
Ast. Director	Frank Winterstein						1		1
Camera Operator	Len Harris	43	19 May 1916		21 Feb 1995	78	52	1	53
Camera Operator	Herbert Geier						1		1
Continuity	Phyllis Crocker	46	1 Jan 1913		22 Jun 1991	78	1		1
Director	Robert Aldrich	40	9 Aug 1918		5 Dec 1983	65	2		2
Director of Photog.	Ernest Laszlo	61	23 Apr 1898		6 Jan 1984	85	1		1
Editor	Henry Richardson	23	13 Jan 1936		31 Jul 2017	81	4	7	11
From the novel "The Phoenix" by	Lawrence P Bachmann	47	12 Dec 1911		7 Sep 2004	92	1		1
Music Composer	Kenneth V Jones	35	14 May 1924		2 Dec 2020	96	1		1
Musical Director	John Hollingsworth	43	20 Mar 1916		29 Dec 1963	47	36	2	38
Producer	Michael Carreras	31	21 Dec 1927		19 Apr 1994	66	82	3	85
Production Designer	Ken Adam	38	5 Feb 1921		10 Mar 2016	95	1	1	2
Production Manager	Basil Keys	42	1917		2009	92	4	1	5
Production Manager	George Mohr						1		1
Screenplay	Teddi Sherman	38	1 Apr 1921		16 Jan 2019	97	1		1
Screenplay	Robert Aldrich	40	9 Aug 1918		5 Dec 1983	65	2		2
Sound Editor	Roy Hyde	39	15 Feb 1920		28 Jun 1985	65	30	1	31
Sound Recording	Heinz Garbowski						1		1
Supervising Editor	James Needs	39	17 Oct 1919		4 Feb 2003	83	110	1	111
Wardrobe	Molly Arbuthnot	50	19 Dec 1908		31 Oct 2001	92	48	4	52
Uncredited
Ast. Editor	Chris Barnes	21	1 Jan 1938		5 Jun 2009	71	21	12	33
Focus Puller	Harry Oakes	38	16 Jan 1921		11 Dec 2012	91		53	53

Cast


Character	Actor	Age at Release	Birth	Death	Age	Hammer Productions
						Credited	Uncredited	Total
Hans Globke	Jimmy Goodwin	30	21 May 1929	18 May 1980	50	1		1
Karl Wirtz	Jeff Chandler	40	15 Dec 1918	17 Jun 1961	42	1		1
Loeffler	Robert Cornthwaite	42	28 Apr 1917	20 Jul 2006	89	1		1
Major Haven	Richard Wattis	47	25 Feb 1912	1 Feb 1975	62	6		6
Margot Hofer	Martine Carol	39	16 May 1920	6 Feb 1967	46	1		1
Sulke	Wes Addy	45	4 Aug 1913	31 Dec 1996	83	1		1
Tillig	Dave Willock	49	13 Aug 1909	12 Nov 1990	81	1		1
Uncredited
Doctor	Charles Nolte	35	3 Nov 1923	12 Jan 2010	86		1	1
Narrator	Michael Pate	39	26 Feb 1920	1 Sep 2008	88		1	1
Workman at Bomb Site	Jim Hutton	25	31 May 1934	2 Jun 1979	45		1	1

Production


FILMING BEGAN	24 February 1958
UK RELEASE	15 June 1959
STUDIO	UFA Studios, Templehof, Berlin, Germany
LOCATION	West Berlin, Germany

Footnotes

American Robert Aldrich went on to make a rod for his own back when he directed Hollywood ‘grandes dames’ Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in the magnificently over-the-top shocker “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” (1962). It was an experience he even tried to repeat in 1964 with “Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte”, but Crawford backed out after shooting had begun and was replaced by Olivia de Havilland.

Aldrich’s other films include “The Dirty Dozen” (1967), “The Killing of Sister George” (1968) and, as producer only, “Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice?” (1969). He died in 1984.

Jack Palance played the part of Dracula in a TV movie of 1973. His other ventures into fantasy include Amicus’s “Torture Garden” (1967, with Peter Cushing) and “Godzilla versus the Cosmic Monster” (1976). More recently, he appeared in “Batman” (1989).

Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection