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
Robert Mitchum
Capt. Murrell
Curd Jürgens
Kapitän von Stolberg
David Hedison
Lt. Ware
Theodore Bikel
Heinie Schwaffer
Russell Collins
Doctor
Kurt Kreuger
Von Holem (uncredited)
Frank Albertson
Lt. J.G. Crain
Biff Elliot
Quartermaster
Michael McHale
German Soldier
Alan Dexter
Lt. Mackeson (uncredited)
Doug McClure
Ens. Merry (uncredited)
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.
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