A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine spectacle and cold war heroics.
Direction
Fuller squeezes every inch of that Fox submarine set
Cinematography
Scope framing that makes claustrophobia epic
Acting
Widmark's snarl vs. Darvi's... let's call it presence
Director
Samuel Fuller
Richard Widmark
Capt. Adam Jones
Bella Darvi
Denise Montel
Victor Francen
Prof. Montel
Cameron Mitchell
'Ski' Brodski
Gene Evans
Chief Holter
David Wayne
Tugboat Walker
Stephen Bekassy
Neuman
Richard Loo
Hakada Fujimori
Robert Adler
Welles (uncredited)
Eugene Borden
French Reporter (uncredited)
Leslie Bradley
Mr. Aylesworth (uncredited)
Henry Kulky
McCrossin (uncredited)
John Wengraf
Col. Schuman (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fox built a full submarine interior for this and 'Destination Tokyo'—Fuller complained they gave him the worse set.
Bella Darvi was Darryl Zanuck's mistress; her casting caused on-set tension Fuller never forgave.
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