Submarine Alert (1943) WWII-THRILLER
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- Stars: Richard Arlen, Wendy Barrie and Nils Asther
Director: Frank McDonald
Writer: Maxwell Shane (original screenplay)
Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese submarine!
I found this movie to be quite enjoyable. I love B&W. Dealing with shadows, lighting, etc. is in many respects better than color.
The claim that spies along the coast were what caused the shipping disaster along the Gulf and eastern seaboard US in the first few months of WWII persisted until the Navy realized that not blacking out the cities gave the U-boats a huge advantage. Our ships were silhouetted against the bright lights all along the coast, just waiting for a sub further offshore to pick them off. Even though I lived 100 miles inland in California, our town went through extensive drills in the event of Japanese air attacks or even invasion. It was a scary time for this 4-year old that I've never forgotten.
My mother has a similar story. She remembers being in an air raid shelter as a three year old during the Japanese raids on Calcutta in 1943.
Know the feeling! I was a 4yr. old living at Ft. Richardson in '53/54, during the height of our contention with the USSR. I remember our lights going out during base alerts, and soldiers patrolling by our housing, shining flashlights through our basement windows, where we dependents were all huddled in fear. Folks today have no clue (yet) what nuclear fear is!
This was quite good WW11 depiction! Proud of the people involved who made& were part of this film! Thank you,PizzaFlix for showing it.
One of the last espionage films Dwight Frye appeared in before he so sadly and suddenly passed away the same year, 1943. RIP ♥
After reading comments where some thought this was worth watching.... I suffered through to the end.... and I'm so glad..... it's finally over ! That's 2 hours I'll never get back.........
While a bit crude by today's standards with all of the CGI junk, profanity, nudity and every other loss of morals that Follywood produces these days, this was a great film for it's time. There were a lot of good films produced in the forties and early fifties that far exceed most of what passes for "entertainment" today.
Does anyone force you to watch modern movies?
@@christianlibrul anti-Christian Leftoid.
These movies and most of the story lines and dialogues right into the 60s are considered wholesome. Interestingly in todays world one may be a stalker or a misogynist , or worse a womanizer groper etc ! We just lost a Governor who grew up with these amazingly wholesome stories. Just an observation of the broad strokes of opining.
@@cgpyper7536 So, he is not a superstitious moron.
It's obvious by the comments of a few posters that they were either too young or weren't born and didn't experience WWII, or it's effects on the average person. Yes, to many today this was a B movie, and Yes, most of the actors were stock actors and not first name celebrities as you require in your movies today. BUT, the fact was that this type of movie was our 'Internet" "social media" of the day and we watched them as avidly and with concern about what they told us was going on as you do your "Facebook" or what ever today.... Shame, you can't watch an old film and try to see it from the perspective of the days when it was produced and not from your caustic and PC perspective of today.
Yeah, you nailed it, the 'perspective' of that era is it. One cannot view history through the lens of the 21st century. That's seems to be a tough-tough thing to ask of many of today's millenniums.
Oh, Rubbish! You're complaining about a dumbed-down post WWII generation(s) that was your generation's doing. Stop whining about your children or materialistic, narcissistic grandchildren and a world that is environmentally and
politically destroying itself. If Stephen Hawking was correct there's only 100 years left on planet earth for humans, SO the SHAME is that you can't enjoy the few moments left to you and your progeny. Take the stick out of your ass!!
There are always JERKS that don't like the movies that are here and complain about the time they wasted watching them. I don't get it if they don't like something they can watch something else I do and I don't comment about not liking something I don't watch.
Being in my early 60's I was not around for WWII but my father served in the Navy so we would occasionally watch this type of program. And of course Combat, The Rat Patrol, McHale's Navy, Hogan's Heros, later on, we watched Black Sheep Squadron. Of course, some of them were more comedy than factual, but that's the way of television. I enjoy these old films and will continue to watch them for what the represented.
Well said,but far too politely.
BigGuyUSA great comments.
This old movie epitomizes the patriotism we lack today ... in the summer of 2020.
Very interesting Paramount classic. Needs a total restoration from their original negatives.
I am a retired submariner. Clicked on this to see a submarine movie. Saw a spy movie that was not half bad.
Pizza flix, you did it again! Most enjoyable, loved the car chase. Thanks for the upload.
Exciting movie with an equally exciting score. Thanks PF.
@12:58~ It's Dwight Frye!! (Alice would be thrilled!)
good movie, thanks for the upload
The closing line is on point!!! "Honestly folks. It isn't a this piece of paper that makes an American. It's what you have in your heart for your country. We know our way of life is best, and we're fighting to keep it that way." Wake up America!!!
Now the people pouring across our southern border only think about commiting crimes, getting handouts, etc. If I sound like I'm generalising too much, I'm only going by what I see & hear on a daily basis. I'd like to think it's not as bad as all that, but it's difficult. (Posted 29FEB2024)
Love the chase scene, riding on the side of a racing cop car shooting.
Naval officer @5:45 is Milburn Stone. Doc on Gunsmoke.
DING,DING,DING!!!!! Right answer Marion Morrissey. This is at least the second film Dwight Frye ," Mr. Haldine" in this movie, and Milburn Stone were in However, they never shared a scene together in this film or, the 1938 James Whale film, "Sinners Paradise", but I'm sure they must have ran into each other on both film productions..
@4:40 and addressed as Lt. Winston @5:00.
He also played Captain Vickery in "Sherlock Holmes Faces Death" starring Basil Rathbone.
[3:16] was there ever a WW2 submarine movie made that DIDN'T use that stock footage of a torpedo firing?
Good older spy movie. Thanks for the down load.
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Another great and fun @PizzaFlix upload. Good sauce on this one. Just an observation on the film: that sub depicted in the first minute is more like something you would see as a comfortable cruising submarine taking in the tropical underwater sights with all those cabin windows and bulging sides instead of a slick, narrow, WWII war machine where there was barely enough room to move. This depiction was like the space ships envisioned in the next decade, all spacious and comfortable with room for a swimming pool and a pony. (Thanks Hyacinth, lol.) OH, and the wheel that was supposedly being turned by water was turning the wrong way. (Just a hobby catching these tiny imperfections.)
thanks, Pizza
No professors were actually harmed in the making of this movie.
Unfortunately
Enjoyable. Thanks!
America needs you a Very good film for the war cause way back in the 1940's and the Nazi and Japanese threat to the good of man kind
Totally engrossed thank you
Thank you for the upload.
Watching from NSW Australia.
Thanks for watching! May the Sauce be with you.
Watching in the UK. Nice spy thriller, is their anybody today that can do morse code.
+TheSnakeGaming Im sure there is. I used to but that was 50yrs ago forgot most of it now and lost all speed.
I was a young boy in Boys Brigade and tried to learn it, the easiest was SOS , I think three dots ... then two .. then three...
Maybe wrong but I am sure theres a geek out there that will correct me. SOS Save our Souls.
+TheSnakeGaming Im not a geek but emergency signals are nearly 3 of whatever therefore SOS is ••• --- ••• . I do remember a little.
For a movie called SUBMARINE ALERT ,it seems to have very little submarines seen in it ...
Until near the end, that is !!!
Better some than none, I guess...
If only the Socialist Democratic Party felt the same way in the United States of America. In God We Trust.
This film raised the spirit of the American people during the war it's a good propaganda film considering at the time that German U-boats were sinking American merchant shipping and the US Navy had not decided to convoy ships yet as Adm. King thought it was a waste of resources. The film blames losses on spys, thus diverting attention away from real problem. The hero of the film an alien is given citizenship, unlike aliens fighting in today's US forces who are not given citizenship, some even deported. A very idealistic film.
Radio Direction Finding does not work that well.
My code copy is pretty rusty, but that appeared to be actual morse code about what the enemy agents were doing.
Not a bad movie. I liked it.
Big guy USA is absolutely correct! This movie is reality!
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The music here is excellent, far better than the standard stuff one hears in such films. It is by Freddie Rich, a confirmed musician who had a long career with many of the top names in the music business. The only good thing about this clunker.
LA in the 40s. Reminiscent of the comic books and serials of the era.
Bit of a mixed message that, right at the end... Congress grants Ametican citizenship to the alien, and the UK National Anthem plays... ;-)
It’s not only God Save the Queen, it’s also for Americans My Country ‘Tis of Thee!
@@deniser7573 arr whoosh, but thanks for sharing.
Complete bull... if it was anywhere near reality those bombers would have probably have sank the tankers themselves
Dated and corny but OK. I thought Flash Gordon would appear. At 00.58 why don't they open the cold water tap on the wall? "God Save the Queen" closing music. (Actually it is "My country tis of thee" which has the same tune and was a contender for the US National Anthem in 1930).
"Sunk offshore". Of course! How could it be sunk ONshore?
Wendy Barrie was the sometimes girlfriend of Bugsy Siegal.
Did not know that. Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX and the bit of trivia
I knew this was going to be a good movie when I saw that it was approved with certificate #8594.🙄
Secret Asian Man! :D
I give this 4 periscopes.
It shows how oil makes a country weak.
That is why the world must get off oil.
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I enjoy these wartime propaganda movies.
This is not a propaganda movie. It is a patriotic movie. Check the dictionary for the difference.
@@bradmiller2329 actually both concepts are just methods used to cause you to think certain way. They are in fact the same just with different perspective.
Code 2:45 ... craft sailed tonit ...
6:42 ...calling subma ...
Dilley come here
She really looks hot from 1:00:04 to 1:00:07
"It's not this piece of paper that makes an American. It's what you have in your heart that keeps it that way." True to day; more than ever! MAGA!! Thanks P. Flix.
@@residentalien7055 Self description?!
@@cgpyper7536 We "aliens" and "immigrants" hope you find the help you need.
@@residentalien7055 Take your fear, hatred, stupefying ignorance and ingratitude and go back to your country of citizenship.
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A B Picture [1hr 6 min] 'starring' [yeah, whatever!] studio properties you never heard of! So of course it's no longer under copyright protection.
Dwight Frye who played Mr. Haldine in this movie was the original "Renfield", the fly eating mad man from the 1931 classic film, Dracula. Heck, he even had an ode in song dedicated to him by Alice Cooper himself, called, "Ballad of Dwight Frye"
Need piano buggy woggy
WOOGY
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Ko Koo Koo of if by see see
Total paranoid behavior!
Ok..so where's the submarine? Bullshit title.
the worst part was the last 60 seconds of pure propaganda such crap
Up yours! They were fighting to not have a way of life like some of the other countries, like Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy. If that bothers you, you should find happiness elsewhere.
@@stevek8829 Dont waste your time steve, they dont get it and never will, we are now a very apathetic country..