Submarine Base | |
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Directed by | Albert H. Kelley |
Produced by | Jack Schwarz |
Written by |
George M. Merrick Arthur St. Claire |
Starring | See below |
Music by | Charles Dant |
Cinematography | Marcel Le Picard |
Edited by | Holbrook N. Todd |
Distributed by | Producers Releasing Corporation |
Release date
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20 July 1943 |
Running time
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65 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Submarine Base is a 1943 American film directed by Albert H. Kelley for Producers Releasing Corporation. The working title was Raiders of the Pacific.
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.