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As the number of titles in this category indicates, submarines
constitute a popular setting - perhaps because their cramped
interiors are dramatic in themselves, and are easily reproduceable
in a film studio.
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| Alfa-Tau (Italy, 1942, 85 mins) |
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| The exploits of an Italian submarine
against the British. With non-professional cast. Dir Francesco
De Robertis (the head of Italy's Naval Film Service during
WW2.) |
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| Assault on a Queen (US, 1966, 106 mins) |
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| Crime thriller; a gang raises an old
sunken Nazi sub, and under the command of a former U-boat
captain, attempts to hijack the liner Queen Mary. With
Frank Sinatra, Alf Kjellin, Virna Lisi. Dir Jack Donohue
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| Behind the Door (US, 1919, 80 mins) |
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| Notorious 'Vengeance on the Hun' production,
in which the US navy hero pursues a sadistic U-boat captain
and finally skins him alive. With Hobart Bosworth, Wallace
Beery, Jane Novak. Dir Irvin Willat |
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| The Boat (aka Das Boot) (West Germany,
1981, 149 mins/cinema version, 210 mins/tv version) |
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| U-boat warfare from the German viewpoint.
With Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennemann.
Dir Wolfgang Petersen |
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| Close Quarters (aka Up Periscope) (GB,
1943, 75 mins) |
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| Semi-documentary on submarine life
during WW2. With non-professional cast. Dir Jack Lee |
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| Crash Dive (US, 1943, 105 mins) |
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| Wartime production focuses more on
submariners' romantic complications ashore than on service
matters. With Tyrone Power, Dana Andrews, Anne Baxter.
Dir Archie Mayo |
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| Crimson Tide (US, 1995, 115 mins) |
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| New lieutenant on US nuclear sub begins
to have doubts regarding his captain's mental stability.
With Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, Matt Craven. Dir
Tony Scott |
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| Destination Tokyo ( US, 1943, 135 mins) |
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| US sub attacks Japanese shipping in
Tokyo bay. With Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale.
Dir Delmer Daves |
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| The Enemy Below (US, 1957, 98 mins) |
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| Grim game of cat-and-mouse between
a US destroyer and a German U-boat. With Robert Mitchum,
Curd Jurgens, Theodore Bikel. Dir Dick Powell |
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| The Flying Missile (US, 1950, 93 mins) |
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| WW2 story about pioneering efforts
to launch rockets from submarines. With Glenn Ford, Viveca
Lindfors, Richard Quine. Dir Henry Levin |
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| 49th Parallel (aka The Invaders) (GB,
1941, 123 mins) |
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| The adventures of a U-boat crew after
their sub is destroyed off the coast of Canada. With Eric
Portman, Niall McGinnis, Laurence Olivier. Dir Michael
Powell |
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| Gray Lady Down (US, 1978, 111 mins) |
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| The efforts to save the crew of a
stricken US nuclear sub. With Charlton Heston, David Carradine,
Stacy Keach. Dir David Greene |
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| Hell Below (US, 1933, 105 mins) |
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| The adventures of an American sub
in WW1; the story is set mainly in the Mediterranean but
it appears that some on-shore footage was shot at Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii. With Walter Huston, Robert Montgomery,
Madge Evans. Dir Jack Conway |
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| Hellcats of the Navy (US, 1957, 82 mins) |
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| WW2 Action yarn concerning the adventures
of a US sub and its crew. With Ronald Reagan, Nancy Davis,
Arthur Franz. Dir Nathan Juran |
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| The Hunt for Red October (US, 1990,
135 mins) |
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| A Soviet nuclear sub appears to be
defecting to the US. With Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin,
Sam Neill. Dir John McTiernan |
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| Les Maudits (aka The Damned) (France,
1946, 100 mins) |
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| Tough tale about a mixed bunch of
collaborators and war criminals who leave Oslo in the
closing stages of the war, trying to reach South America
on a U-boat. With Henri Vidal, Jo Dest, Paul Bernard.
Dir Rene Clement |
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| Men Beneath the Sea (aka Uomini sul
Fundo) (Italy, 1940, 80 mins) |
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| Dramatisation of a submarine rescue
which arises during a naval exercise; produced before
Italy's entry into WW2. With non-professional cast. Dir
Francesco De Robertis |
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| Men Like These (aka Trapped in a Submarine)
(GB, 1931, 46 mins) |
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| Said to be based on the story of the
British sub Poseidon which sank after colliding with a
Chinese steamer, in June 1931. With Sydney Seaward, John
Batten, James Enston. Dir Walter Summers |
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| Men Without Women (US, 1930, 70 mins) |
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| 14 men trapped in a sunken submarine
with not enough escape gear to go round. With Kenneth
Mackenna, Frank Albertson, Paul Page. Dir John Ford |
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| Morgenrot (aka Red Dawn) (Germany, 1932,
80 mins) |
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| German tribute to its submarine effort
in WW1. Of historical interest: the film's premiere took
place in Berlin on 2 Feb 1933, attended by A Hitler -
the day after he had taken over as Reich Chancellor. With
Rudolph Forster. Dir Gustav Ucicky |
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| Morning Departure (aka Operation Disaster)
(GB, 1949, 102 mins) |
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| A submarine hits an old electric mine,
sending her to the sea-bed. The desperate rescue attempts
are intercut with the predicament of the trapped submariners.
(Taken as to many of the details from the loss of the
Thetis, in June 1939; the film carries a would-be reassuring
notification that methods of submarine rescue are by now
an improvement on those depicted.) With John Mills, Richard
Attenborough, Nigel Patrick. Dir Roy Baker |
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| Mystery Submarine (US, 1950, 78 mins) |
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| Tall tale involviing spies, scientists
and fanatical Nazis aboard a U-boat. With Macdonald Carey,
Marta Toren, Carl Esmond. Dir Douglas Sirk |
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| Mystery Submarine (aka Decoy) (GB, 1961,
90 mins) |
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| Adventure story, in which a captured
German sub is manned by a British crew. With Edward Judd,
James Robertson Justice, Albert Lieven. Dir Pennington
Richards |
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| Pirate Submarine (aka Casabianca) (France,
1951, 84 mins) |
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| The French submarine Casabianca breaks
out of Toulon and joins forces with Corsican- based resistance.
With Jean Vilar, Gerard Landry, J Vilmont. Dir Georges
Peclet |
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| Run Silent, Run Deep (US, 1958, 93 mins) |
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| Tensions between the officers of a
sub in the Pacific theatre. With Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster,
Jack Warden. Dir Robert Wise |
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| Submarine (US, 1928, 90 mins) |
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| Silent melodrama; rescue of trapped
submariners is hampered by enmity between leader of the
rescue team and captain of the sub. With Jack Holt, Ralph
Graves, Dorothy Revier. Dir Frank Capra |
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| Submarine Command (US. 1951, 87 mins) |
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| Drama about how a submarine officer's
questionable conduct in WW2 is vindicated during action
in Korea. With William Holden, William Bendix, Don Taylor.
Dir John Farrow |
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| Submarine D-1 (US, 1937, 98 mins) |
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| Typical Hollywood production of its
day about a new submarine and its he-man crew. With Pat
O'Brien, George Brent, Wayne Morris. Dir Lloyd Bacon |
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| Submarine X-1 (GB, 1968, 89 mins) |
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| After his boat is lost in action,
an officer is posted to the midget submarine force. With
James Caan, Rupert Davies, William Dysart. Dir William
Graham |
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| Torpedo Alley (US, 1953, 84 mins) |
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| Love and submarine warfare during
the Korean conflict. With Mark Stevens, Bill Williams,
Dorothy Malone. Dir Lew Landers |
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| Torpedo Bay (aka Finche Dura la Tempesta/Beta
Som) (GB/Italy, 1962, 91 mins) |
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| An Italian sub seeks refuge in neutral
Tangiers, while the British Admiralty plots its destruction.
With James Mason, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lilli Palmer. Dir
Charles Frend |
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| Torpedo Run (US, 1958, 98 mins) |
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| Ruthless sub commander wreaks havoc
on Japanese shipping. With Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine,
Dean Jones.Dir Joseph Pevney |
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| U-Boat Prisoner (US, 1944, 65 mins) |
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| A Nazi sub attempts to carry captured
scientists back to Germany. (Though based on a work of
non-fiction - U-Boat Prisoner by Archie Gibbs - the story
appears to have been so adapted as to become entirely
fanciful.) With Bruce Bennett, Erik Rolfe, John Abbott.
Dir Lew Landers |
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| U-571 (US, 2000, 116 mins) |
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| Highly contentious - from the historical
point of view - tale about US submariners capturing an
Enigma coding machine. With Matthew McConaughey, Bill
Paxton, Harvey Keitel. Dir Jonathan Mostow |
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| Up Periscope (US, 1959, 111 mins) |
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| Conflict between sub commander and
the demolition expert attached to his crew. With James
Garner, Edmond O'Brien, Alan Hale. Dir Gordon Douglas
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| We Dive at Dawn (GB, 1943, 98 mins) |
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| The triumphs of fictional sub Sea
Tiger, which include torpedoeing a German battleship.
A wartime morale-booster. With John Mills, Eric Portman,
Niall McGinnis. Dir Anthony Asquith |
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