ID

FBW001383      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1944

Original Title

U-BOAT PRISONER

Directed by

Lew Landers

Produced by

Columbia Pictures Corporation, Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY

Staff

Producer: Wallace MacDonald; Script: Aubrey Wisberg, Malcolm Stuart Boylan; Based on: Archie Gibbs (Story); Camera: Burnett Guffey; Editing: Paul Borofsky; Art direction: Lionel Banks, Perry Smith; Set decoration: Robert Priestley

Cast

Bruce Bennett (Archie Gibbs); Erik Rolf (Kapitan Ganz); John Abbott (Alfonse Lamont); John Wengraf (Rudehoff); Robert B. Williams (Cmdr. Bristol); Kenneth MacDonald (Clyde Hamilton); Erwin Kalser (Biencawicz); Egon Brecher (Sigo van der Brek); Fred Giermann (First Officer Kerck); Arno Frey (Hagemann); Sven-Hugo Borg (Dorner); Nelson Leigh (Lt. Hagen); Fred Graham (credited as Fred Graff) ( Lt. Blake); Trevor Bardette (Cmdr. Prentiss); Paul Zaremba (credited as Paul Conrad) (Lt. Nolan); Eric Feldary (Braustig)

Length

65'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 25 Jul 1944: US release date

Abstract

Archie Gibbs is cast as a Yankee seaman who single-handedly knocks out a German sub by posing as a Nazi. He gets on board during a rescue operation completely undetected, renders everyone helpess with some flying fists, and then allows a US destroyer to sink the sub. He shows a touch of humanity, however, by rescuing the crew from certain death.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US); National Socialists

Bibliography

- Nash, Ray R. / Ross, Stanley R. / Conelly, Robert B. (Ed.): Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1987
- Martin, Len D: The Columbia Checklist. The Feature Films, Serials, Cartoons and Short Subjects of Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1922-1988. Jefferson, NC / London: McFarland, 1991