Top billed cast

1. 

   John Mills

   Lt. Cmdr. Armstrong

2. 

   Richard Attenborough

   Stoker Snipe

3. 

   Nigel Patrick

   Lt. Manson

4. 

   George Cole

   ERA Marks

5. 

   Bernard Lee

   Cmdr. Gates

6. 

   Peter Hammond

   Sub-Lt. Oakley

7. 

   Andrew Crawford

   Sub-Lt. J. McFee

8. 

   Michael Brennan

   CPO Barlow

9. 

   Wylie Watson

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-02-05

This is quite an anxious wartime drama that goes some way to illustrating the perils faced by those in HM Submarine Service. John Mills is the captain "Armstrong" who takes his crew on a routine maritime patrol only for their gear to become ensnared in a mine cable. A suddens stop and reverse engines doesn't quite do the trick and to the bottom they go. Largely in one piece and not in such deep water, they are optimistic of rescue and, indeed, help arrives fairly sharpish allowing the first four of the twelve survivors to don their emergency gear and head to the surface. The sense of enclosure...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• sea
• submarine
• world war ii
• crew
• 1940s