Captain Cassidy (Cary Grant) leads his submarine USS Copperfin on an important mission. He delivers meteorologist Lt. Raymond to Tokyo Bay to gather weather intelligence for the Doolittle Raid.
This is an early submarine movie. It has the great Cary Grant in the lead. It spends too much time with the crew's stories. At the very least, it has the setting that future movies look to as a baseline. While they do tip the whole set, it's not quite the extreme angles that really exaggerate the tension. It needs a tighter setting to break out the claustrophobic paranoia. The miniature work is fine. This lays out the blueprint for a submarine thriller which those who follow are able to improve upon.
This is an early submarine movie. It has the great Cary Grant in the lead. It spends too much time with the crew's stories. At the very least, it has the setting that future movies look to as a baseline. While they do tip the whole set, it's not quite the extreme angles that really exaggerate the tension. It needs a tighter setting to break out the claustrophobic paranoia. The miniature work is fine. This lays out the blueprint for a submarine thriller which those who follow are able to improve upon.