Running guns and other war supplies in fishing boats from Britain to Norway, challenging Nazi airplanes, spies, and above all the North Sea. The print I saw was grainy and poor but the film still gives one the sense of what it's like to be at sea in rough weather and under dangerous conditions.
The acting is perfunctory. The dialog clipped and functional. The moral message a little retro, considering the year of its release. The Germans are uniformly evil minded.
But one can't complain. The action is tense and graphic. And realistic too. Lifeboats don't look as if they're made for a movie. They look as if they're made to survive at sea, clinker built and sturdy as can be.
No character development or complexity but maybe none is necessary to draw a viewer into an unpretentious tale of wartime bravery.
The acting is perfunctory. The dialog clipped and functional. The moral message a little retro, considering the year of its release. The Germans are uniformly evil minded.
But one can't complain. The action is tense and graphic. And realistic too. Lifeboats don't look as if they're made for a movie. They look as if they're made to survive at sea, clinker built and sturdy as can be.
No character development or complexity but maybe none is necessary to draw a viewer into an unpretentious tale of wartime bravery.