Set somewhere in WW2 on an American Submarine. It starts out with them rescuing 3 British survivors of a Hospital ship and 1 of them turns out to be a woman. The crew of the American sub seem to be mainly British actors (especially in the Torpedo room) with no-one I could name and only Dexter Fletcher playing one of the rescued Brits. The sub itself looks excellent and totally correct as do the uniforms and haircuts. The feeling of suspense as they try to avoid German boats is very well done. All the cast do that very well indeed and are very believable as submariners.
After a depth charge encounter with a German ship because of a record player activated during silent running we then find out the 3rd member of the rescued party was wearing German trousers. He does turn out to be German and resists arrest (stupidly grabbing a scalpel when he was gunpoint), getting himself killed. The nurse is confined to quarters and is obviously very misguided about the nature of war and the definition of "Enemy". Lots of strange things start to happen, voices, things dropping seemingly by themselves.
After reading the Captains log the nurse discovers the current sub CO is not it's assigned Captain (it's war, he most likely died). Interrupted by the same German ship whilst taking on air and recharging batteries the sub is forced to hit bottom and stay there. Brice gives the nurse his explanation of what happened the the original Captain. By this time I realised I'd seen the movie before, possibly on Uk TV which is why it felt so familiar to me.
Anyway, It turns out the sub sank the hospital ship and they killed the Captain when he found out it wasn't a German boat. Very good film, decent horror/suspense aspects along with a decently unnerving ghost subplot too.
Well worth a look despite its lack of big names attached to it.
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Tuesday, June 3, 2008
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