After completing Back Door to Hell Hellman remained in the Philippines to direct this black comedy thriller written by Jack Nicholson as an open homage to John Huston's satirical romp Beat the Devil. A taut, paranoid story of diamond smuggling and deception, Flight to Fury stars Dewey Martin as an expatriate gambler drifting through the Far East and suddenly menaced by Nicholson's seedy Machiavellian con man. The film's darkly satirical edge gleams with unexpected flashes of unsettling comedy, violence and bizarre narrative twists. – HG

Hellman's contribution to the omnibus horror film Trapped Ashes is a melancholy study of friendship and obsessive desire which invents a sinister and haunting tale about a young Stanley Kubrick. – HG