Fire Down Below (1957 film)

Fire Down Below
US cinema release poster
Directed byRobert Parrish
Screenplay byIrwin Shaw
Based onFire Down Below
1954 novel
by Max Catto (as Simon Kent)
Produced byAlbert R. Broccoli
Irving Allen
StarringRita Hayworth
Robert Mitchum
Jack Lemmon
CinematographyDesmond Dickinson
Edited byJack Slade
Music byArthur Benjamin
Douglas Gamley
Kenneth V. Jones
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release dates
  • 30 May 1957 (1957-05-30) (UK)[1]
  • 8 August 1957 (1957-08-08) (USA)[2]
Running time
115 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2.3 million[3]
Box office$2,050,000 (US only)[4]

Fire Down Below is a 1957 adventure drama film with a screenplay written by novelist Irwin Shaw, starring Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum and Jack Lemmon, and directed by Robert Parrish. Based on Max Catto's 1954 novel with the same title, the picture was made by Warwick Films on location in Trinidad and Tobago, in Technicolor and CinemaScope, and released by Columbia Pictures.

  1. ^ "To-day's Arrangements: "Princess Alexandra attends ... the première of the film Fire Down Below in aid of the Greater London Fund for the Blind, Odeon Theatre, Marble Arch". The Times. 30 May 1957. p. 11.
  2. ^ "Fire Down Below". dvdcompare.net. 8 July 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  3. ^ "Warwick Shrinks Overhead and Sked". Variety. 23 October 1957. p. 4.
  4. ^ "Top Grosses of 1957". Variety. 8 January 1958. p. 30.