Un eccentrico prete recluta tre detenuti riluttanti per aiutarlo a salvare un lebbrosario di bambini da un'isola del Pacifico minacciata da un vulcano fumante.Un eccentrico prete recluta tre detenuti riluttanti per aiutarlo a salvare un lebbrosario di bambini da un'isola del Pacifico minacciata da un vulcano fumante.Un eccentrico prete recluta tre detenuti riluttanti per aiutarlo a salvare un lebbrosario di bambini da un'isola del Pacifico minacciata da un vulcano fumante.
- Premi
- 1 candidatura in totale
- Jacques
- (as Jean Pierre Aumont)
- Marcel
- (as Gregoire Aslan)
- Camille
- (as Barbara Luna)
- Aristide Giraud
- (as Lou Merrill)
- Margot
- (as Michele Montau)
- Citizen
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
- Radio Operator
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Trama
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- QuizThe volcano in this film was built from scratch on farmland outside Fallbrook, California. Each shot required packing with hundreds of pounds of explosives and a carefully-orchestrated "eruption" to be filmed by the cameraman seated on the front skids of a helicopter. One eruption went off a little early and nearly took out the chopper, burning off the cameraman's eyebrows and some of his hair. Because the eruptions looked so good, this ersatz volcano provided stock footage for other films, commercials, etc., for decades.
- BlooperAfter the island explodes, the sea is perfectly calm. A huge eruption like that would have produced a huge tsunami.
- Citazioni
Charlie: I was a pretty good thief in my time.
Father Matthew Doonan: I believe that.
Charlie: It's too late. Can't you get out now?
Father Matthew Doonan: It's never too late to change.
Charlie: My mother, that's what she used to say, "It's never too late."
Father Matthew Doonan: She was right.
Charlie: She kept after me - kept tellin' me - there was another thief once dyin' on the cross right next to Christ.
Father Matthew Doonan: The Good Thief.
Charlie: That's what she called him.
Father Matthew Doonan: He didn't chicken out. He just got smart and at the very last moment, he stole Heaven.
Charlie: That's pretty good stealin', huh?
- ConnessioniEdited from Quando i mondi si scontrano (1951)
Some say the film was a precursor to the disaster films of the 1970s, such as The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake, and The Towering Inferno. I can see that, although I never would have made that connection myself.
Because of Tracy's demand of top billing in any movie he starred in, Sinatra ceded top-billing in order to secure Tracy for the film. The film was the most expensive that Columbia Pictures had ever made. This was a wise move on Sinatra's part, because Tracy really makes the picture. Although the convicts are great, this is one of Tracy's better roles (and it helps that Hepburn is not around to slow him down).
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- Budget
- 5.721.786 USD (previsto)
- Tempo di esecuzione2 ore 6 minuti
- Proporzioni
- 1.85 : 1