Submarine commander Ken White reminisces about his wartime years aboard submarine USS Tiger Shark and struggles with feelings of personal guilt.Submarine commander Ken White reminisces about his wartime years aboard submarine USS Tiger Shark and struggles with feelings of personal guilt.Submarine commander Ken White reminisces about his wartime years aboard submarine USS Tiger Shark and struggles with feelings of personal guilt.
George D. Wallace
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John Close
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- TriviaSS-306 was actually the USS Tang. In her short career, lasting barely over a year, she amassed an unequaled record. Depending on the source, she sank either 24 ships for 93,824 tons or 31 ships in her five patrols, totaling 227,800. The Tang was sunk on 25 October,1944 with the loss of 74 men. Nine men, including her skipper, survived. Tang was sunk by her last torpedo which made a circular run. Picked up by a Japanese destroyer, the men were tortured by survivors of the ships she had sunk in her last action. They were interred at Japanese POW camps until the end of the war.
- GoofsIn the opening scenes when a down pilot is being rescued, the sub is at full stop. However in the dialogue, the captain is still calling orders to the engine room to slow engines.
- Quotes
Lt. Cmdr. Ken White: Looks like a nice day for a swim.
Cmdr. Joshua Rice: You wouldn't like it Ken. The water's about 50.
Lt. Cmdr. Ken White: Back in Michigan we call that warm.
Cmdr. Joshua Rice: Down in Kentucky we chop it up and pour bourbon over it .
- ConnectionsFeatured in A Simple Plan (1998)
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Good But Slow
Sub commander William Holden makes the right calculation and three men under his command die after peace is declared. Admiral Moroni Olsen says he did right, but engineer William Bendix doesn't like it. Neither does Holden. He broods from the end of the Second World War until he resigns, then changes his mind, so wife Nancy Olson leaves him. Admiral Olsen says the resignation wouldn't have been accepted, because it's the Korean War now, and he's needed to command his old sub's namesake. Is Holden going to make the right decision and brood himself into a padded cell, or the wrong one and a well-adjusted court martial.
There's talk that this is an early example of the serious consideration of Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, but it looks more like survivor's guilt to me. In any case, there are lot of scenes of Holden looking moody and arguing with Miss Olson. Director John Farrow may have been an expert movie guy for Men Under Stress, but this one is a bit too slow. With Don Taylor, Arthur Franz, and Darryl Hickman.
There's talk that this is an early example of the serious consideration of Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, but it looks more like survivor's guilt to me. In any case, there are lot of scenes of Holden looking moody and arguing with Miss Olson. Director John Farrow may have been an expert movie guy for Men Under Stress, but this one is a bit too slow. With Don Taylor, Arthur Franz, and Darryl Hickman.
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