Naval Warfare Movies

Submarine Patrol, John Ford
Richard Greene, Nancy Kelly, Preston Foster, George Bancroft
1938, USA, 95 min.
WWI, Feature

This is the VHS release.

Summary

In World War I, a battered sub chaser crewed by a motley group of misfits patrols the Adriatic hunting U-boats. In a formula which is now a familiar one, the crew shapes up and fulfills its mission in heroic style.


Notes

This film is notable for its sympathetic treatment of the enemy U-boat men. Based on Ray Millholland's The Splinter Fleet of the Otranto Barrage and filmed with the support of the U.S. Navy.

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