The crew of an American submarine are on a reconnaissance mission, photographing Japanese installations through a periscope camera. When attacked by the Japanese (with similarities to USS Perch) the submarine is scuttled and the crew is captured.
Tortured by the Japanese, with the help of British and Australian prisoners, the submarine’s officers make an escape bid to get their information to the Allies. The film ends with footage of the Battle of the Coral Sea (1942), which according to the film was made possible through the information brought back by the submariners.
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Jingoistic
Shame the carrier is clearly an American one, with an island. I mean, what happened to special FX to create an accurate silhouette??
Thanks for posting this movie. It's great seeing the perspective from 1959. I feel a little let down that Tom Laughlin didn't roundhouse kick a few Japanese soldiers though. Maybe post PT109?
It is so unfortunate that there was nothing about the real battle. It is an excellent story in itself. Nothing I have read anywhere, indicates that there was anything to do with a recon mission by a sub. It was about intelligence in Honolulu cracking enough of the JN25 code, to intercept the Japanese.
I've been watching aerial and naval warfare movies for over 60 years and could never understand why the sound of an explosion occurring at high altitude or at sea reverberated for at least 2 seconds.
Yea ! Yea !! Amerirican popular war moovies. Allways the same menu !! The clever Americans against the enemy (any enemy) which are allways just a band of stupid idiots !!
The description makes it sound like the British and Australians were helping the Japanese.
Absolute tosh! Not the action at Coral Sea at all!
When Men were men 😳😳😳😳
I regard the battle of the Coral Sea as a tactical draw but a strategic victory for the USA. We each lost a carrier and a half but, to the Japanese, it meant two less carriers available for the Battle of Midway. Had they been able to participate, that battle could very well have had a much different outcome.
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No Scuba Aqualung during WW2, Not yet invented. The Aqualung was introduced in 1946 and was available on the U.S. market in 1952. 23:30
The Japanese had no way to imagine what was to come down on them. The battle of Coral Sea happened barely five months after the US entry into WW2. Within a short two years, the US Navy would sail some 20 plus fleet level carriers and an additional 100 plus support and auxiliary carriers and millions of tons of other craft. They knew about US industrial might, but that scale was inconceivable. Not quite 2 years after this, the mastermind of the devastating attack on the US pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) Isoroku Yamamoto would be hunted down and shot out of the sky. His body was discovered with two 50 cal. wounds, one through the left shoulder and most probably the fatal one through his left jaw exiting his right eye. This event led up to the ultimate end of the IJN.
Love how the Exec. "invents" the periscope mounted camera, then their sealed orders that they open 8 days at sea tell them to do photo-recon! Were they supposed to surface in the middle of the Japanese fleet and stand on deck snapping pictures??? LOL. Very entertaining movie, 'tho. Thanks!
Japanese did not have frogmen during the war. Those were American divers.
I'm more than half way through but I can't work out what this has to do with the Coral Sea. Maybe it might have some relevance later.
do you have tumbleweed , audie murphy and a ticklish affair
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I don’t know what this is but it was entertaining
at5;35 they allow smokin in a sub?