Story Line
Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.
“The man they called the 'human torpedo' - the secret underwater marauder who hit like no man hit before!”
Top Cast
James Garner
Lt. J. G. Kenneth M. Braden
Edmond O'Brien
Commander Paul Stevenson
Andra Martin
Sally Johnson
Alan Hale Jr.
Lt. Pat Malone
Carleton Carpenter
Lt. Phil Carney
Frank Gifford
Ensign Cy Mount
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Rating
6.4/ 10
Release Date
1959-03-04
Runtime
1h 52m
Genres
WarAdventureAction
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User Reviews (2)
John Chard
6/10
•3/2/2015Up Periscope and Down Tools.
Tricky. It's a decent film, lovely to look at with its scope photography and technicolor palettes, James Garner and Edmond O'Brien are holding court in the acting stakes, and of course this being a submarine war film i...
CinemaSerf
6/10
•8/12/2023As a kid, I always loved submarine films. As a weapon of war, they aways provided a great vehicle for an adventure - great atmosphere, murky depths and torpedos that seemed very rarely to hit what they were aimed at! Best of all, though, there was po...