Submarine Base (film)

Submarine Base is a 1943 American film directed by Albert H. Kelley for Producers Releasing Corporation. The working title was Raiders of the Pacific.^[1]

Plot

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. ^[2]

Cast

• 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

References

1. ↑ http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=695
2. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036398/

External links

• Submarine Base at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Submarine Base at the Internet Movie Database
• Submarine Base is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]