![]() Actually, it has a lot of great characters, maybe more than The Enemy Below, but it recycles a lot of the tricks from The Enemy Below and adds some more. This movie has that and just about nothing else. U571 (2000) – Talk about tension overboard. We spend most of the time with the Americans, but I think the scenes humanizing the Germans heighten the tension of the whole thing. ![]() This is one of the first Captain versus Captain movies I ever saw, where both sides were given a good characterization. He plays a World War II submarine Captain. The Enemy Below is based on a book and stars Robert Mitchum, a great actor. The Enemy Below (1957) – This is a surprisingly good movie for the time period, because I know the 50s are a haven for bad schlock slapped on screen. Burt Lancaster makes up for Cable’s awful performance and delivers a great supporting role.Ĩ. I think later films patterned themselves after this movie. However, the drama is spot on and has some of the most classic submarine bridge moments I’ve ever seen. Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) – This is not Clark Cable’s best movie, I can tell you that for sure. The Beatles wrote a song that makes no sense, so guess what, you get a movie that makes no sense.ĩ. ![]() The problem with this isn’t the music, but the fact that they made a movie based on a strange song. The Beatles themselves aren’t really in their own movie that much, probably because they’re out hoping and wishing the 60s could go on forever. The Beatles put their trademark stamp on this one and strange stuff happens. The Yellow Submarine (1968) – Some people don’t even consider this a movie, but I balk at that notion. I like submarine sandwiches, but that didn’t make the list. I’m not talking about a movie with a submarine that does a fly-by, but this is a list of movies based on submarines or taking place on submarines. In honor of things that float (and sink), this is a list of the top ten submarine movies of all time.
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