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Submarine Base
“I'm An Outcast!!! A Scoundrel To The End... But I'll Die A Hero's Death To Stop The Nazis!”
5.1 / 10• 1943• 1h 5m•NR• English
ActionDramaWar
Storyline
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
James Xavier 'Jim' Taggart
Lead
Alan Baxter
Joe Morgan
Eric Blore
Spike, Morgan's Aide
Georges Metaxa
Nazi Agent Anton Kroll
GF
George Flaherty
David Cavanaugh
Rafael Alcayde
Felipo
Fifi D'Orsay
Maria Styx
Iris Adrian
Dorothy
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Albert H. Kelly's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Submarine Base is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
