I just saw this movie on TV and it was awesome.
I won't go into the plot since it has been covered but if you want to see a stereotypical submarine movie using every cliché in the book watch this movie. I don't think you could make a funnier satire if you tried. (Think of 'Airplane' except in a sub.) And interesting highlight of the film is the use of tracers fired by the machine guns. This is the first and only of that era films that tracer rounds were shown.
A bit of dialog is worth highlighting.
Widmark to the Professor: "Well professor, how did a girl that looks like that get mixed up in science?" My 16 year old daughter broke out laughing when she heard that.
Another unintentionally funny scene. After being damaged from ramming the Chinese sub, and while still submerged, Widmark walks through the sub from one end to the other. During his walk and talk with the crew there is a steady stream of water buckets being passed back. I mean a steady stream, as in dozens if not hundreds of buckets of water being passed. Finally Widmark makes it to the forward torpedo room where he observes men passing up the buckets of water from below the floor boards of the sub. The question to ask is "where did they get all those buckets?" and "What are they doing with the water since they are still submerged?" Also watch for first use of a SEAL team when they go ashore on the island.
The editing in this movie is horrible, the continuity is horrible, the dialog is horrible. The movie is hilarious as a result.
With Hollywood's habit of remaking nearly every movie ever made this one should be on the top of the list. It would be a hit comedy with no changes at all.
I won't go into the plot since it has been covered but if you want to see a stereotypical submarine movie using every cliché in the book watch this movie. I don't think you could make a funnier satire if you tried. (Think of 'Airplane' except in a sub.) And interesting highlight of the film is the use of tracers fired by the machine guns. This is the first and only of that era films that tracer rounds were shown.
A bit of dialog is worth highlighting.
Widmark to the Professor: "Well professor, how did a girl that looks like that get mixed up in science?" My 16 year old daughter broke out laughing when she heard that.
Another unintentionally funny scene. After being damaged from ramming the Chinese sub, and while still submerged, Widmark walks through the sub from one end to the other. During his walk and talk with the crew there is a steady stream of water buckets being passed back. I mean a steady stream, as in dozens if not hundreds of buckets of water being passed. Finally Widmark makes it to the forward torpedo room where he observes men passing up the buckets of water from below the floor boards of the sub. The question to ask is "where did they get all those buckets?" and "What are they doing with the water since they are still submerged?" Also watch for first use of a SEAL team when they go ashore on the island.
The editing in this movie is horrible, the continuity is horrible, the dialog is horrible. The movie is hilarious as a result.
With Hollywood's habit of remaking nearly every movie ever made this one should be on the top of the list. It would be a hit comedy with no changes at all.
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