Directed by:
Mervyn LeRoyScreenplay:
Liam O'BrienCinematography:
Joseph F. BirocComposer:
George DuningCast:
Spencer Tracy, Frank Sinatra, Kerwin Mathews, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Alexander Scourby, BarBara Luna, Marcel Dalio, Michele Montau, Grégoire Aslan (more)Plots(1)
THE DEVIL AT 4 O'CLOCK is a disaster flick with a star-studded cast. Spencer Tracy stars as a priest who has lost his faith and has become an alcoholic. He is to be replaced by a new cleric on the South Seas island on which he works, arriving on a plane carrying three manacled convicts (Frank Sinatra, Gregoire Aslan, and Bernie Hamilton) on their way to prison on the main island of Tahiti. Tracy asks for permission to have the convicts help him finish the chapel at the island's hospital for children with leprosy, but, as they work, a series of earthquakes signal that the island's slumbering volcano might be waking. Finally, a huge quack erupts and the island's inhabitants prepare to evacuate, leaving Tracy, Sinatra, and company the responsibility of escorting the lepers to safety, a task that requires chaperoning them down the mountain, through the jungle, and out to the last evacuation boat before it departs at 4:00 sharp. The dark tale also includes a romantic element featuring Barbara Luna as a blind woman whom Sinatra can't refuse. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Spencer Tracy
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
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Frank Sinatra
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
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Kerwin Mathews
USA
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Jean-Pierre Aumont
France
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Alexander Scourby
USA
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Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
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BarBara Luna
USA
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Elmer Gantry (1960)
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Marcel Dalio
France
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Michele Montau
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Grégoire Aslan
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Norman Wright
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Louis Mercier
Algeria
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Bernie Hamilton
USA
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Eugene Borden
France
Best movies:
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Cathy Lewis
USA
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Louis Merrill
Canada
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