The Devil at 4 O'Clock
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 Inferno.
Plot
A small plane approaches the fictional Pacific island of Talua in French Polynesia, 500 miles from Tahiti, the plane's destination. The plane and its cargo of three manacled prisoners and a priest makes an overnight stop on the island, planning to fly onward the next day.
More details
| author | Liam O'Brien |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | French Polynesia |
| director | Mervyn LeRoy |
| editor | Charles Nelson |
| genre | adventure drama |
| keywords | blind girl church dead child last rites leper colony leprosy loot married pacific pacific island pacific ocean plan pray for rain schooner seaplane tahiti |
| musicBy | George Duning |
| producer | Fred Kohlmar |
| productionCompany | Columbia Pictures |
| publisher | Columbia Pictures |
| recordedAt | Hawaii |
| theme | disaster |