Decent submarine pic with at least two great, extended action sequences, the emergency appendectomy and the ordeal by depth charge. But like all Delmer Daves films ("Dark Passage" and "Three Ten To Yuma" excepted) it's too long, too slow and too talky. The first forty minutes are especially seat squirmy with a very sentimental Christmas under the sea plus various crew members boring us with reminiscences about dames and family, those twin staples of WW2 propaganda films that view the home front. And as always when Cary Grant plays it serious throughout there is a sense of letdown which you can almost see in his performance, as if he's silently pleading with the director, "Aw gee Delmer, let me do one bit of comedy instead of giving what little there is to Alan Hale!" C plus.
PS...I realize this movie was made in the midst of our one justified foreign war, with victory far from assured, but did I really need to be told how good Japanese flesh tastes or how they don't love their women and train their five year olds to handle weapons (which is actually two years older than Kristi Noem advocated)?
PS...I realize this movie was made in the midst of our one justified foreign war, with victory far from assured, but did I really need to be told how good Japanese flesh tastes or how they don't love their women and train their five year olds to handle weapons (which is actually two years older than Kristi Noem advocated)?