Movie: Seas Beneath (1931) (Directed by John Ford)

[Bubblehead1980]

Decided to check it out and for a movie that is ninety years old, really not bad thus far. Great shot of an real S-Class surfacing around the 6:00 minute.

https://vimeo.com/244820057

[les green01]

honest can you beat a Pappy Ford movie

[Bubblehead1980]

honest can you beat a Pappy Ford movie



Pretty tough usually. However, this movie was okay, I watched it for the visuals, I mean used real S- Class subs etc but they sidetracked things with the silly pseudo tempress angle and the actress was horrid, just awful. Actually, watching it prompted me do a little research and Ford felt same basically..

"That was a war story about a Q ship - some good stuff in it - but at the last moment, the head of the studio put a girl who'd never acted before in as the lead because he thought she spoke a few words of German - which she didn't. We had a scene, I remember, in which the German submarine slips up alongside another submarine to refuel, and this girl comes out onto the bridge chewing gum! Right in the camera. So we had to go to all the trouble of doing it all over again. She just couldn't act. But we did all the refueling at sea. That stuff was good and so was the battle stuff, but the story was bad; it was just a lot of hard work; and you couldn't do anything with that girl. Then later they cut the hell out of it."

[vickers03]

nice find! i really like this movie. nice interior shots (Argonaut, SClass), the german they speak is not too bad. Argonaut looks very cool as a german uboat with nice camo too! plus i liked the girl:doh:


better picture quality: https://9movies.ro/watch/seas-beneath-1931-full-movie/lfhyj/