Green Hell (film)
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| Directed by | James Whale |
| Written by | Frances Marion |
| Produced by | Harry E. Edington |
| Starring | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Vincent Price Joan Bennett |
| Cinematography | Karl W. Freund |
| Edited by | Ted Kent |
| Music by | Frank Skinner |
Production company | Famous Films |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $692,000 |
Green Hell is a 1940 American jungle adventure film directed by James Whale, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Joan Bennett.
Green Hell was given a lavish production by Universal Pictures, which built a massive indoor jungle set on a sound stage. An Inca temple 125 feet high, 225 feet wide, and 45,000 square feet in area was constructed. Having spent a great deal of money on a film that turned out to be a critical and financial disaster, Universal used the set again, recycling it into an Egyptian temple for The Mummy's Hand (1940).
Whale made only one more completed film after this, the 1941 World War II romantic melodrama They Dare Not Love, starring George Brent as an exiled Austrian prince fighting the Nazis.