Torpedo los! (1958)

Torpedo los!: Directed by Joseph Pevney. With Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Diane Brewster, Dean Jones. A submarine commander is forced to blow up a Japanese ship with prisoners.

“This is not such a successful movie. Glenn Ford is solid as always and Ernest Borgnine delivers a serviceable performance, but the problem is the script and direction. The story is on the sluggish side and after the midway point you donu0026#39;t have a sense of enough really at stake. The flashbacks to civilian life also take the audience out of the war story in a way that releases any built-up tension. Then the movie has to start all over.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe effects are also not terribly good, even by 1958 standards. Too many model shots of ships, and the interior of the sub really does feel like a studio set, especially due to the lighting design.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOne thing that is especially interesting about TORPEDO RUN is a sub evacuation sequence in which the seamen exit the submarine at the floor of the ocean using Momsen-lungs, special breathing devices. These devices are very rarely shown in submarine movies.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA much, much better sub movie was released a few months before this one: RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP.”