Submarine Base (1943)

Submarine Base (1943). 1h 5m | Approved

“Merchant mariner John Litel has another ship blown out from under him. Heu0026#39;s picked up by Alan Baxter. When they both lived in New York, Baxter was a mobster, and Litel a police detective trying to jail him. When things became too hot, Baxter settled for being a fisherman off the coast of South America. He drops Litel on an out-of-the-way island right on the Equator, where the eccentric locals — including Eric Blore, Fifi Du0026#39;Orsay, and Luis Alberni — keep up a shoddy brand of normality with German spies, ineffective French governors, German U-boats off the coast, and so forth.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThree years earlier, Litel had been playing second leads and authority figures at Warner Brothers, and here he is, slumming at PRC. Whom had he offended so badly? Baxter speaks his lines like he has a head cold. The script is blah, with Litel giving a rah-rah speech at the end, which comes out of nowhere. Another PRC C movie.”