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Ten Seconds to Hell ()

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After 1945, six German ex-soldiers are hired to defuse unexploded Allied bombs in the ruins of Berlin.
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Eric Koertner
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Karl Wirtz
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Margot Hofer
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Franz Loeffler
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Peter Tillig
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Wolfgang Sulke (as Wes Addy)
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Hans Globke (as Jimmy Goodwin)
Virginia Baker ...
Frau Bauer
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Maj. Haven
Nancy Lee ...
Ruth Sulke
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Workman at Bomb Site (uncredited)
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Doctor (uncredited)
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Narrator (uncredited)

Directed by

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Robert Aldrich

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Robert Aldrich ... (screenplay) and
Teddi Sherman ... (screenplay)
 
Lawrence P. Bachmann ... (novel "The Phoenix")

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Robert Aldrich ... producer (uncredited)
Michael Carreras ... producer

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Kenneth V. Jones

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Ernest Laszlo ... director of photography

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Henry Richardson

Editorial Department

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James Needs ... supervising editor
Chris Barnes ... assistant editor (uncredited)

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Ken Adam

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Basil Keys ... production manager
Georg Mohr ... production manager (as George Mohr)

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René Dupont ... assistant director (as Rene Dupont)
Frank Winterstein ... assistant director

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Heinz Garbowski ... sound recordist
Roy Hyde ... sound editor

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Herbert Geier ... camera operator
Len Harris ... camera operator
Harry Oakes ... focus puller (uncredited)

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Molly Arbuthnot ... wardrobe

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John Hollingsworth ... musical director

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Phyllis Crocker ... continuity
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Plot Summary

At the end of the Second World War six German ex-soldiers return to Berlin and set up as a bomb disposal group. The pressure of the dangerous work starts to affect them, the more so as they have agreed to pool half their pay so that if only one survives he takes it all. Casualties and friction are inevitable, and having to handle British 1000lb bombs seems particularly bad news. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

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Taglines BLOCKBUSTER ABOUT TO EXPLODE! (original poster-all caps) See more »
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Also Known As
  • The Phoenix (United Kingdom)
  • The Extra Edge (United States)
  • The Phoenix (United States)
  • Tout près de Satan (France)
  • Vor uns die Hölle (Germany)
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  • 93 min
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Budget $1,100,000 (estimated)

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Trivia Jack Palance and director Robert Aldrich had worked together with distinction on two previous occasions - "Attack!" and "The Big Knife" - but fell out most acrimoniously during the making of this film. Aldrich later remarked wryly that it was probably unwise for any director to work more than twice with an actor as volatile as Palance, but nonetheless sought him out yet again a few years later when Palance was offered the role of Archer Maggot in "The Dirty Dozen". It seemed there might be a reconciliation at last, but Palance dropped out at the last minute (because of illness, some sources have claimed) and the part was taken over by Telly Savalas. See more »
Movie Connections Referenced in Libel (1959). See more »
Quotes Karl Wirtz: I guess it's still my bomb.
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