Peter Illing

Inclement weather forces a group of wealthy passengers, including a duchess, a movie mogul, and an Australian entrepreneur, to spend the night in the V.I.P. lounge of the London airport. As they get acquainted, they confront their various problems. Oscar-winner Elizabeth Taylor ("Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") stars in this insightful drama as an American wife about to leave her husband, Richard Burton ("The Spy Who Came in from the Cold," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"), for her lover, Louis Jordan ("Gigi"). Also starring Oscar-winner Maggie Smith ("A Room with a View," "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"), Oscar-winner Orson Welles ("Citizen Kane," "Touch of Evil"), and Rod Taylor ("The Birds," "The Time Machine"). Margaret Rutherford received an Oscar for her supporting role as the troubled Duchess of Brighton.

During World War II, the residents of a French village find an able helper in their task of making life difficult for German-occupying forces in a Canadian pilot they rescue after he crash-lands in the vicinity and ends up in the hands of the Nazis. As the villagers grow increasingly dependent on the flyer's training and smarts, the Germans grow more determined to eliminate the force behind the strengthened local resistance.

A pair of small-time smugglers have a falling out over the love of a sexy, and disreputable, woman.

Hollywood legends Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum and Academy Award(R) winner Jack Lemmon (Best Actor in a Leading Role, SAVE THE TIGER, 1973. Best Actor in a supporting Role, MISTER ROBERTS, 1955) team up in this high seas adventure tale of smoldering passion and deception, shot on location in Trinidad. Hayworth is the torrid siren-turned-sailor who comes between two best friends and sends temperatures rising. When FIRE DOWN BELOW was released, it attracted not only the public's adoration, but it also had the critics looking at Hayworth for the first time as a serious actress, instead of just another Hollywood glamor girl.