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Submarines 101

TonyPolito

Now just where is that "Dive! Dive! Dive!" button on my remote control?

MIA: "Hell Below" (1933) starring Walter Huston, Jimmy Durante & Robert Young.

MIA: A 2000 PBS/NOVA broadcast: "Hitler's Lost Sub." Also a 2005 Discovery Channel product: "Submarine: Hidden Hunter."

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	TonyPolito's Rating	My Rating
1	Destination Tokyo 1943, Unrated)
2	We Dive at Dawn 1943, Unrated)
3	Crash Dive 1943, Unrated)
4	Operation Pacific 1951, Unrated)
5	Submarine Command (The Submarine Story) 1951, Unrated)
6	Torpedo Alley 1953, Unrated)
7	20,000 Leagues Under The Sea 1954, G)
8	Hell and High Water 1954, Unrated)
9	Submarine Attack 1954, Unrated)
10	Above Us the Waves 1955, Unrated)
11	The Enemy Below 1957, Unrated)
12	Run Silent, Run Deep 1958, Unrated)
13	Torpedo Run 1958, Unrated)
14	The Atomic Submarine 1959, Unrated)
15	Submarine Seahawk 1959, Unrated)
16	Up Periscope 1959, Unrated)
17	Operation Petticoat 1959, Unrated)
18	Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea 1961, PG)
19	The Bedford Incident 1965, Unrated)
20	Fantastic Voyage 1966, PG)
21	Ice Station Zebra 1968, G)
22	Submarine X-1 1969, G)
23	The Spy Who Loved Me 1977, PG)
24	Gray Lady Down 1977, PG)
25	Das Boot (The Boat) 1981, R)
26	Submarine: Steel Boats: Iron Men 1989, Unrated)
27	The Abyss 1989, PG-13)
28	The Hunt for Red October 1990, PG)
29	Crimson Tide 1995, R) An unrealistic underwater drama where Sub Captain Gene Hackman and Executive Officer Denzel Washington spend nearly 2 hours dealing each other an endless series of mutinies over whether to launch the sub's nukes at a Russian missile installation commandeered by rebels. Hackman's holding the official unambiguous order; Denzel wants confirmation but communications is down. Sub films are almost always dramatic viewing since there's easy plot devices such as flooding, sealing off of compartments leaving decent folk to drown, nosediving straight into hull-crushing depths, torpedoes vs. countermeasure devices, ad nauseum. And, not surprisingly, the strong deliveries by Hackman and Denzel further float the viewer along. All that, however, doesn't supercede the boatload of plotholes onboard. Both officers have to turn their launch keys for a go; Denzel never stashes/hides his from Hackman; Hackman idiotically leaves his console-dangling so the mutineers can boost it. Denzel's concerned the strike, if uncalled for, will provoke a full-on Russian attack on America - even though the Russians would know full well it was intended only against the rebels. And the launch is a no-go unless launch control flunkie Mortensen coughs up the combo to his own MasterLock, that apparently being standard-issue high-security equipment on nuclear-armed subs. Just exactly who would write that procedure, making both officers impotent in wartime? What, no procedure/plan if Mr. MasterLock is killed in action? Why isn't the US doing whatever it takes to stop/contact the sub? And fueling the Russian missiles takes 90 minutes. Really? Retaliatory nukes, needles on empty? And just how long does it take to get liquid oxygen into a missile anyway? Long enough to make sure this film ran a full two hours in theaters, apparently. RECOMMENDATION: Watchable, but not in the least believable.
30	Down Periscope 1996, PG-13)
31	Hunley 1997, Unrated)
32	Hostile Waters 1997, PG)
33	Sub Down 1997, PG-13)
34	The World Is Not Enough 1999, PG-13)
35	Nova - Submarines, Secrets & Spies 1999, Unrated)
36	Yuryeong (Phantom: The Submarine) 1999, Unrated)
37	U-571 2000, PG-13)
38	K-19: The Widowmaker 2002, PG-13)
39	Regulus: The First Nuclear Missile Submarines 2002, Unrated)
40	National Geographic - Lost Subs 2002, Unrated)
41	Below 2002, R)
42	Koursk: Un sous-marin en eaux troubles (Kursk: A Submarine in Troubled Waters) 2004, Unrated)