Hell Below

Hell Below
Directed byJack Conway
Screenplay byLaird Doyle
Raymond L. Schrock
John Lee Mahin
John Meehan
Based onPigboats
1931 novel
by Edward Ellsberg
Produced byJack Conway
StarringRobert Montgomery
Walter Huston
Madge Evans
CinematographyHarold Rosson
Edited byHal C. Kern
Music byWilliam Axt
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • April 25, 1933 (1933-04-25) (New York)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$895,000[1]
Box office$1,389,000[1]

Hell Below (aka Pigboats) is a 1933 American MGM pre-Code film set in the Adriatic Sea during World War I about submarine warfare based on Commander Edward Ellsberg's novel Pigboats. The film stars Robert Montgomery, Walter Huston, Robert Young, Madge Evans and Jimmy Durante.[2]

  1. ^ a b "The Eddie Mannix Ledger." Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study, Los Angeles.
  2. ^ Evans 2000, p. 92.