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vienna · 11-16-10, 01:34 PM

I have this film on DVD as part of a Humphrey Bogart box set I bought a few years back. It is a very good film. The U-Boat scenes are a bit laughable (in one scene you can even see the tether used to control the model on the port side of the boat), but given that it was obviously a quickly made propaganda-type film, it is quite enjoyable. I sometimes have thought this film might deserve a remake. We here in the States have had cable TV movies about the land war ("The Pacific") and other such subjects, but there has not been a film dramatizing the Battle of the Atlantic and/or the efforts of the Merchant Marine. Maybe Tom Hanks could get on this.

By the way, if you buy the DVD, the film is presented as a "night out at the movies" including a period newreel and cartoon short.

11-16-10, 01:34 PM	#6
vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,726 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	I have this film on DVD as part of a Humphrey Bogart box set I bought a few years back. It is a very good film. The U-Boat scenes are a bit laughable (in one scene you can even see the tether used to control the model on the port side of the boat), but given that it was obviously a quickly made propaganda-type film, it is quite enjoyable. I sometimes have thought this film might deserve a remake. We here in the States have had cable TV movies about the land war ("The Pacific") and other such subjects, but there has not been a film dramatizing the Battle of the Atlantic and/or the efforts of the Merchant Marine. Maybe Tom Hanks could get on this. By the way, if you buy the DVD, the film is presented as a "night out at the movies" including a period newreel and cartoon short.