Top Billed Cast

Clark Gable
Cmdr, Richardson
Burt Lancaster
Lt. Jim Bledsoe
Jack Warden
Yeoman 1st Class Mueller
Brad Dexter
Cartwright
Don Rickles
Quartermaster 1st Class Ruby
Nick Cravat
Russo
Joe Maross
Kohler
Mary LaRoche
Laura Richardson
Eddie Foy III
Larto
Rudy Bond
Sonarman 1st Class Cullen
Jimmy Bates
Jessie (uncredited)
Joel Fluellen
Bragg (uncredited)
Ken Lynch
Frank (uncredited)
H.M. Wynant
Corpsman Hendrix (uncredited)
Teru Shimada
Japanese Submarine Commander (uncredited)
Skip Ward
Minor Role (uncredited)
Russell Thorson
Submarine Crewman (uncredited)
Rodger Terry
Crewman (uncredited)
Maurice McEndree
Radio Operator (uncredited)
Alexander Lockwood
Minor Role (uncredited)
Dale Ishimoto
Japanese sailor (uncredited)
John Gibson
Capt. Blunt (uncredited)
John Close
Co-ordinate Fixer at Bungo Straits (uncredited)
John Bryant
Carl Beckman (uncredited)

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Fri Feb 24 2023

This superior wartime submarine story is about an American captain (Gable) who seeks to avenge the loss of an earlier ship to a Japanese destroyer by perfecting a very difficult "bow shot" technique that would enable him to torpedo this fast moving enemy head on. Burt Lancaster portrays his popular XO who ought, originally, to have had that command but has been passed over; and the film depicts the evolution of their taut and mistrusting relationship. Gable is on good form as his character treads a very thin line between reason and obsession and Lancaster works hard to keep himself and the crew...