Action in the North Atlantic 1943 movie

[Kpt. Kozloff]

In a nutshell it's a film about merchant navy sailors and Halifax - Murmansk convoy being attacked by a wolfpack. I saw this movie last week or so on TCM. As much as i consider H. Bogart as a legend, this movie was dreadful. Although it's clearly a wartime propaganda flick.
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Has anyone seen this one?

[corvette k225]

For me not to bad of a movie!:D I like Corvette k-225 a lot better.:lol:

[fred8615]

I've always thought it was a pretty good movie.

Now if you want a truly dreadful propaganda piece, try watching Air Force.:down:

[Ishmael]

My father and his friend saw this movie in Northern Nebraska in late 1943 as merchant seamen on the way from New York to San Francisco. I wrote about it in the general forum at the following location:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=89989&highlight=Tales+inadvertent+pacifist

Read the story, it's pretty funny.

I watched it for the first time about a year ago and found it interesting on a couple of levels. I had heard my father's story many times over the years before actually seeing the film. I found the dialogue of the crew pretty close to what I knew from my father, grandfather & their friends. On the other hand, the general plot was a typical wartime propaganda film of the genre with merchant seamen substituting for other troops against a sadistic and ruthless enemy. What got my Dad & his friend were probably the scenes of an old Liberty tub slewing around the ocean like a destroyer. The reason it was kept in the vaults all those years is that it showed the Russians as our gallant Soviet allies & that was verboten in the anti-communist years. On a side note, I looked it up on IMDB and found that the screenwriter was nominated for an Acadamy award for best original screenplay.

[Kpt. Kozloff]

My father and his friend saw this movie in Northern Nebraska in late 1943 as merchant seamen on the way from New York to San Francisco. I wrote about it in the general forum at the following location:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=89989&highlight=Tales+inadvertent+pacifist

Read the story, it's pretty funny.



Great story Ishmael. I really enjoyed it better than the movie. In fact i will remember the film just because of it.
Utmost respect to your father and his friend, surely brave men.

P.s. Personally i liked the concept of the movie, but the script... ayayay...