Sunday, December 1, 2024

The Review: Hell Bound (1957)


Hell Bound 2/10


Last weekend L. let me pick which old film we were gonna watch and I picked a stinker. The beginning of this movie is a narrated version of how this drug heist is gonna go. Guy pretends to be lost at sea, ship inspector shows up and puts himself into diabetic shock, nurse arrives and gets drugs from WW2 that were “leftover”, and they get paid from selling drugs. The rest of the movie is this guy Jordan making this happen in real life and failing every step of the way. The guy lost at sea is a tweaker. He falls for the nurse who is dating a mobster and she falls for the ambulance driver and gets stabbed by Jordan. The diabetic dude is no longer quite diabetic. The entire plan is far too convoluted and depends on far too many things going right to trust this to anyone he trusts this to. This would've been a little better to me by not showing the entire plan at the start of the movie.


John Russell as Jordan

June Blair as Paula

Stuart Whitman as Eddie Mason

Margo Woode as Jan


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