Action in the North Atlantic

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Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

Lol well some of the dialogue was a bit corny and doubt that is how americans really talked back then.

It's called the 'Transatlantic Accent' (AKA Mid-Atlantic Accent) which is not a true evolved accent, but a way of speaking that was taught at upper class schools. Because the vast majority of people who would have been involved in movies and radio would have had these kinds of backgrounds, the accent became entrenched in American history.