"Das Boot" it ain't but Dick Powell's enjoyable film about a German U-Boat and an American Destroyer on and off each other's tail has its own excitement giving equal credence and screen time to both sides and refusing to demonise the enemy; indeed, the mutual respect shown by both the Germans and the Americans to each other makes the film moving as well as exciting and something of an anti-war movie at a time when they were hardly fashionable.
Must of the usual clichés are there but it's well cast, (Curt Jurgens' German Captain is particularly excellent), and director Powell handles the action sequences and the climax with some brio making it one of the better movies about the war at sea. Hal Rosson's widescreen cinematography is first class.
Must of the usual clichés are there but it's well cast, (Curt Jurgens' German Captain is particularly excellent), and director Powell handles the action sequences and the climax with some brio making it one of the better movies about the war at sea. Hal Rosson's widescreen cinematography is first class.