7/10
SAM FULLER'S COLD-WAR COMIC-BOOK...ANTI-COMMIE NONSENSE...UNDENIABLY WATCHABLE
8 September 2021
One Wonders What Genius made the Decision to utilize the "New Toy" in Town "Cinemascope" for a "Submarine" Movie.

But the Real Pulp Genius is Sam Fuller who manages to Always be Over-the-Top with His Characters, Plot, and Dialog.

He Makes it Work on a Juvenile Level.

If You Want a more Adult, Serious, Cold-War Thriller from Fuller, See "Pickup on South Street" (1952). A B-Movie Masterpiece. It also Stars Richard Widmark.

Here We get a Civilian Conglomerate of Anti-Reds Willing to Invest Life, Limb, and Fortune Financing a Submarine Mission to Uncover Communist Playing with the A-Bomb.

It's All Out of Orbit Absurdity of the Pulp-Fiction Kind with a Knock-Out Beauty Scientist On Board the Sub to Boot.

What a Hoot.

It's Entertaining as All-Get-Out with some Good Battle Scenes and Two, count-em, Atomic Explosions that Book-End this Novelty Piece.

Worth a Watch for the Sam Fuller Touch, the Mesmerizing Face of Bella Darvi, and for some Fun-Stuff of the Sub at War Variety.
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