Release Date: Mar 4, 1959 Wide
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Lt. (jg) Ken Braden (James Garner) is a US Navy frogman and underwater demolitions expert who is assigned to a vital mission, and to a submarine captained by Commander Stevenson Edmond O'Brien. But Stevenson is a CO who may have seen too many men die -- the two immediately come into conflict over Braden's presence on the boat and his mission, a top secret foray into Japanese waters that jeopardizes the boat. The captain, in his strict adherence to regulations, makes it as difficult as possible
Unrated, 1 hr. 51 min.
Mar 4, 1959 Wide
Dec 19, 2006
All Critics (2) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (1) | DVD (1)
Standard B movie directed with care by the always reliable Gordon Douglas.
...strangely uninvolving throughout its 111 minutes.
A great WWII Submarine War film, showing lots of real footage. Lots of old school actors in this one. James Gardner is on a secret mission on a submarine where he's smuggled into an area of a Japanese island to find a transmitter and a secret code. The subs crew just came from a mission where a jr sailor was killed,
June 20, 2011Super Reviewer
SOLID THRILLER, WELL ACTED AND ALWAYS INTERESTING. SOLID PERFORMANCES. TENSE AND EXCITING. GOOD FILM.
September 2, 2005
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