Submarine Base (film)
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Directed by | Albert H. Kelley |
Written by | George M. Merrick Arthur St. Claire |
Produced by | Jack Schwarz |
Starring | See below |
Cinematography | Marcel Le Picard |
Edited by | Holbrook N. Todd |
Music by | Charles Dant |
Distributed by | Producers Releasing Corporation |
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Running time | 65 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Submarine Base is a 1943 American war film directed by Albert H. Kelley for Producers Releasing Corporation. The working title was Raiders of the Pacific.[1]
Plot
[edit]Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.[2]
Cast
[edit]- John Litel as James Xavier "Jim" Taggart
- Alan Baxter as Joe Morgan
- Eric Blore as Spike, Morgan's aide
- Georges Metaxa as Nazi Agent Anton Kroll
- George Flaherty as David Cavanaugh
- Rafael Storm as Felipo
- Fifi D'Orsay as Maria Styx
- Iris Adrian as Dorothy
- Jacqueline Dalya as Judy Pierson
- Anna Demetrio as Angela Styx
- Luis Alberni as Mr. Styx
- Lucien Prival as German Submarine Captain Mueller
References
[edit]- ^ "Home".
- ^ "Submarine Base". IMDb.
External links
[edit]- Submarine Base at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- Submarine Base at IMDb
- Submarine Base is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
- 1943 films
- American black-and-white films
- Films directed by Albert H. Kelley
- Films set in South America
- Films set on islands
- Producers Releasing Corporation films
- World War II films made in wartime
- World War II submarine films
- American war drama films
- 1940s war drama films
- 1943 drama films
- 1940s English-language films
- War drama film stubs