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The Devil at 4 O'Clock is a 1961 American adventure film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Spencer Tracy and Frank Sinatra. Based on a 1958 novel with the same title by British writer Max Catto, the film was a precursor to Krakatoa, East of Java and the disaster films of the 1970s such as The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake and The Towering ...
- The Devil at 4 O'Clock, 1958 novel, by Max Catto
- Fred Kohlmar
The Devil at 4 O'Clock: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With Spencer Tracy, Frank Sinatra, Kerwin Mathews, Jean-Pierre Aumont. A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.
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- Adventure, Drama, Thriller
- Mervyn LeRoy
- 1961-10-18
Prisoners Harry (Frank Sinatra), Marcel (Gregoire Aslan) and Charlie (Bernie Hamilton) are flown to a small tropical island to serve the elderly Father Doonan (Spencer Tracy), who makes them work...
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- Spencer Tracy
- Mervyn Leroy
- Adventure
The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Spencer Tracy balked at the prospect of playing another one for Columbia Pictures' The Devil at 4 O'clock (1961), an adaptation of the Max Catto novel about a South Seas missionary who joins forces with a trio of prison convicts to clear an orphanage that lies in the path of an erupting volcano.
- Mervyn Leroy, Carter Dehaven Jr., Floyd Joyer
- Spencer Tracy
Aug 14, 2023 · Upon hearing last week’s horrendous news about Lahaina, and the terrible loss of life, eerily similar events in The Devil at 4 O’Clock came rushing to my mind. In the film, Lahaina (unnamed in the movie and the entire island, called Talua) were destroyed when a volcano erupted, spawning an earthquake and red hot lava which flowed down ...
