SUBMARINE BASE (1943) John Litel, Alan Baxter & Eric Blore | Drama | B&W | Timeless Film

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Submarine Base is a 1943 American war film directed by Albert H. Kelley for Producers Releasing Corporation. Its working title was Raiders of the Pacific.

Synopsis

Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.

Cast & Crew

John Litel as James Xavier "Jim" Taggart
Alan Baxter as Joe Morgan
Eric Blore as Spike, Morgan's aide
Georges Metaxa as Nazi Agent Anton Kroll
George Flaherty as David Cavanaugh
Rafael Storm as Felipo
Fifi D'Orsay as Maria Styx
Iris Adrian as Dorothy
Jacqueline Dalya as Judy Pierson
Anna Demetrio as Angela Styx
Luis Alberni as Mr. Styx
Lucien Prival as German Submarine Captain Mueller

Directed by: Albert H. Kelley
Written by: George M. Merrick, Arthur St. Claire
Produced by: Jack Schwarz
Cinematography: Marcel Le Picard
Edited by: Holbrook N. Todd
Music by: Charles Dant
Distributed by: Producers Releasing Corporation
Release Date: 20 July 1943
Running Time: 65 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English