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Hell Below Zero (Warwick; Columbia) is a hot-weather chiller that strives not so much to entertain the moviegoer as to air-condition him. Thus the scene shifts quickly to the Antarctic Ocean, where Alan Ladd is chasing whales and Joan Tetzel. Unfortunately, he catches the whales first, and though watching blubber slowly being stripped from a whale may be educational, it does not sharpen an appetite for the love scenes.

But it is a little too cold to make much love anyway, so Joan and Alan start chasing the villain (Stanley Baker) across the polar floes. As a sort of wrong-way Simon Legree who munches Saltines as malevolently as if they were human bones. Actor Baker is good for some laughs, but by the time he is stowed in the Deepfreeze, many moviegoers will sigh a heartfelt ditto to Ladd's last line: "Come on; it's over."

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