ID

FBW001329      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1943

Original Title

Submarine Base

Directed by

Albert Kelley

Produced by

Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), Los Angeles, CA

Staff

Producer: Jack Schwarz; Script: Arthur St. Claire, George M. Merrick; Camera: Marcel Le Picard; Editing: Holbrook N. Todd; Art direction: Frank Paul Sylos; Music: Charles Dant; Musical adaptation: Charles Dant

Cast

John Litel (Jim Taggart); Alan Baxter (Joe Morgan); Fifi D'Orsay (Maria); Eric Blore (Spike); Iris Adrian (Dorothy); Jacqueline Dalya (Judy); George Metaxa (Kroll); Luis Alberni (Styx); Rafael Storm (Felipo); George Lee (Cavanaugh); Anna Demetrio (Angela); Lucien Prival (Mueller)

Length

65'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Abstract

A former gangster redeems himself by helping to defeat the Nazis on a remote island. Jim Taggart plays a criminal hiding out on the island who at first seems to aid the Nazis by giving them a place to refuel their submarines. Whena ship is sunk, Joe Morgan washes up on shore. A former New York City policeman, now in the merchant marines, he recognizes Taggart as a gangster on the run, and tension soon builds between the two. By the end Taggart is working against the Nazis, but when they find out, he is shot.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US)

Bibliography

- Nash, Ray R. / Ross, Stanley R. / Conelly, Robert B. (Ed.): Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1987