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Submarine Command
Submarine Command
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Storyline
Submarine Command, Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War…. reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.
Feel Good Old Movie
Submarine Command, William Holden is Cmdr. White a quite mature man who suffers through the boredom of the post WW II Navy. He is chained to a desk on a base near his old submarine, which has been decommissioned and mothballed. He visits it periodically to experience his wartime ghosts. He is so bored that he seriously considers chucking the Navy and taking a more lucrative civilian job. Nancy Olson plays his understanding Navy wife. William Bendex is also on hand with old time Chief Petty Officer wisdom and to remind Holden of his ghosts.
Don Taylor portrays the fun and games Navy pilot who is anything but mature. He is teaching ROTC at a nearby college. They met at the end of the war when White’s submarine rescued him. They maintain a friendship even though White is at times disturbed by his happy-go-lucky well adjustment.
When The Korean War starts White is rescued from his desk and placed in command of —– (You guessed it!) his old submarine. Taylor and Holden are united again off the Korean Coast where boat and men undertake a movie ending dangerous mission.
This was a feel good war movie that wasn’t loaded with dated propaganda. Holden narrates as he did in Sunset Blvd. where he first played opposite Olson.
If you like military movies, this is a good one.
