

The crew of the American destroyer escort, the USS Haynes, detects a German U-Boat—resulting in a prolonged, deadly battle of wits.
Direction
Powell squeezes dread from creaking hulls and silence.
Acting
Mitchum vs. Jürgens: two granite faces, one ocean.
Sound
That ping. That endless, maddening ping.

Director
Dick Powell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Curd Jürgens was actually imprisoned by the Gestapo in 1944; playing a humane U-boat captain carried personal weight.
This film essentially created the submarine duel template that Das Boot and Hunt for Red October would later perfect.