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Submarine Base (1943)

1943 · Feature film · 64 min · dir. Albert H. Kelly

I'm An Outcast!!! A Scoundrel To The End... But I'll Die A Hero's Death To Stop The Nazis!

  • Action
  • Drama
  • War
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Synopsis

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…

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Details

Director
Albert H. Kelly
Writer
George M. Merrick
Studio
PRC, Jack Schwarz Productions
Released
1943-07-20
Running time
64 minutes

Cast & crew

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★ · "Das Boot" it ain't · picfixer · 2010-12-29

Okay mister producer, you have the most farfetched plot imaginable for a World War II film, and an underachieving high school junior who failed current events to write its cockamamie screenplay. Next you dip into the pool of wooden leading men to find the stiffest one possible, John Litel. Then for his sidekick you cast Eric Blore as a merchant seaman named Spike. (Yikes!!) To fill out the cast you drug and shanghai Alan Baxter and Fifi D'Orsay. Of course the result is a stunningly bad movie - that however gets three stars. Not exactly because it's so bad it's good in the "Plan 9" sense, but…

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