The Devil at 4 O'clock (1961)
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53% of users liked it
(821 ratings)
Spencer Tracy plays an American priest tending to the natives of a South Sea island. A plane carrying three convicts -- Harry (Frank Sinatra), Marcel Gregoire Aslan and Charlie Bernie Hamilton) -- lands on the island; Father Doonan (Tracy) manages to enlist their (reluctant) aid in working at a… More Spencer Tracy plays an American priest tending to the natives of a South Sea island. A plane carrying three convicts -- Harry (Frank Sinatra), Marcel Gregoire Aslan and Charlie Bernie Hamilton) -- lands on the island; Father Doonan (Tracy) manages to enlist their (reluctant) aid in working at a children's hospital. When the island falls victim to a series of earthquakes, Father Doonan and the convicts work together to evacuate the hospital staff and the children. Harry, the least cooperative of the prisoners, becomes a hero during a volcanic eruption by going back to rescue the priest, who with convict Charlie has been holding a bridge in order to allow the others to escape. Father Doonan and the two convicts are killed, but all the children are rescued. Blighted by bad special effects and ponderous direction, Devil at Four O'Clock is less interesting than the behind-the-scenes rumors concerning the friction between Spencer Tracy and Frank Sinatra. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Mervyn LeRoy
- Written By
- Liam O'Brien
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Oct 18, 1961 Wide
- On DVD
- Jan 14, 2003
Critic Reviews
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
The plot of Mervyn LeRoy's adventure is routine but the special effects are good (for its time) and it's well acted by Frank Sinatra as a convict and Spencer Tracy, again playing a priest.
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Steve Crum, Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers
Colorful disaster movie with good teaming of Tracy and Sinatra.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The special effects were fine, and were about all that was salvageable from this disaster of a film.
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Cast
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Spencer Tracy
as Father Matthew Doonan
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Frank Sinatra
as Harry
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Kerwin Mathews
as Father Joseph Perreau
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Jean-Pierre Aumont
as Jacques
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Grégoire Aslan
as Marcel
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Barbara Luna
as Camille
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Alexander Scourby
as The Governor
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Cathy Lewis
as Matron
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Martin Brandt
as Dr. Wexler
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Marcel Dalio
as Gaston
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Tom Middleton
as Paul
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Louis Mercier
as Corporal
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Michele Montau
as Margot
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Jean Del Val
as Louis
- Ann Dugan
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Bernie Hamilton
as Charlie
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Warren Hsieh
as Napoleon
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Lou Merrill
as Aristide
