Connection
Submarine Command is a american film of genre Drama directed by John Farrow released in USA on 1 november 1951 with William Holden
Submarine Command (1951)
If you like this film, let us know!
- Infos
- Casting
- Technical infos
- Photos
- Videos
- Film quotes
- Characters
- Music
- Awards
Add to a movie listSubmarine Command is a 1951 film starring William Holden, Don Taylor, Nancy Olson, William Bendix, and Darryl Hickman, directed by John Farrow. The movie is notable for being one of the first to touch on post traumatic stress disorder. After Holden had put $20,000 of his own money into the film it was panned by critics for its brooding melodrama.
Synopsis
Holden is cast as Commander White, who during an enemy attack orders that his submarine dive to avoid destruction and thereby loses the captain of the boat on the last day of World War II. The bulk of the movie follows his career in the Navy after the war as his doubt and guilt wear on his marriage. Then, just as he is about to resign from the Navy to escape the ghosts of his past, the Korean War begins and the movie concludes as an action thriller.Actors
William Holden
(Lt. Cmdr. Ken White)
Nancy Olson
(Carol)
William Bendix
(CPO Boyer)
Don Taylor
(Lt. Cmdr. Peter Morris)
Moroni Olsen
(Rear Adm. Joshua Rice)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Submarine Command
There are 203 films with the same actors, 52 films with the same director, 62877 with the same cinematographic genres (including 3231 with exactly the same 2 genres than Submarine Command), 13460 films with the same themes (including 70 films with the same 4 themes than Submarine Command), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Submarine Command, you will probably like those similar films :
Blaze of Noon (1947)
, 1h31Directed by John Farrow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Anne Baxter, William Holden, Sonny Tufts, William Bendix, Sterling Hayden, Howard Da Silva
Rating61%
Early in the 1920s, the four McDonald brothers are performing in a carnival as a stunt flying team, when they are hired by Mercury Airlines in Newark, New Jersey, to fly the national air mail for the US Air Mail Service.
Wake Island (1942)
, 1h27Directed by John Farrow, Hal Walker, Harve Foster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, William Bendix, Macdonald Carey, Albert Dekker, Walter Abel
Rating66%
The film's opening credits state that the screenplay was written by W.R. Burnett and Frank Butler "From the Records of The United States Marine Corps", and includes many Marine Corps and military advisers. It also states that "In this picture, the action at Wake Island has been recorded as accurately as possible. However, the names of the characters are fictional and any similarity to the personal characteristics of the officers and men of the detachment is not intended." This is likely because the actual events were unfolding during the production of the film, and names were being protected.
China (1943)
, 1h19Directed by John Farrow, Hal Walker, Oscar Rudolph, Harve Foster, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Loretta Young, Alan Ladd, William Bendix, Philip Ahn, Richard Loo, Victor Sen Yung
Rating65%
In 1941, in Mei-Ki, China, war profiteer David Jones (Alan Ladd) narrowly escapes with his life when Chinese Captain Tao-Yuan-Kai arrests him for selling oil to the Japanese but releases him because he is American. Japanese aircraft bomb the town, and Jones drives toward Shanghai with his partner, Johnny Sparrow (William Bendix), who has brought with him an orphaned baby boy.
Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
, 1h38Directed by John Farrow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Da Silva, Albert Dekker
Rating68%
In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva), assisted by his first mate, Amazeen (William Bendix). One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Brian Donlevy), who will ultimately recount the entire voyage on paper as a book.
Calcutta (1946)
, 1h23Directed by John Farrow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Bendix, June Duprez, Lowell Gilmore, Benson Fong
Rating63%
Commercial pilot in India attempts to avenge friend's murder.
The Sea Chase (1955)
, 1h57Directed by John Farrow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Political films
Actors John Wayne, Lana Turner, David Farrar, Lyle Bettger, Tab Hunter, James Arness
Rating63%
Captain Karl Ehrlich (John Wayne) is the master of the elderly German steam freighter Ergenstrasse, in port at Sydney, Australia on the eve of the Second World War. Ehrlich is depicted as a patriot, a former career naval officer who lost his rank and position after falling out of favour with the current regime and refusing to support the Nazi Party. As his ship prepares for sea (or to be interned if war is declared) he meets with an old friend, British Commander Jeff Napier (David Farrar) and his fiancée Elsa Keller (Lana Turner).
John Paul Jones (1959)
, 2h6Directed by John Farrow
Origin USA
Genres War, Biography, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Robert Stack, Bette Davis, Marisa Pavan, Peter Cushing, Erin O'Brien, Charles Coburn
Rating62%
The film begins with a United States Navy officer, telling sailors the story of John Paul Jones.
The Hitler Gang (1944)
, 1h41Directed by John Farrow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Documentary, Historical
Themes Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Hitler, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Roman Bohnen, Martin Kosleck, Victor Varconi, Luis van Rooten, Walter Abel, Ivan Triesault
Rating67%
In 1918 a young soldier called Adolf Hitler recovers from being gassed during World War I. At the behest of the German army, he joins German nationalistic parties, espousing theories that Germany lost the war because they were stabbed in the back. He rises to become dictator of Germany.
West of Shanghai (1937)
, 1h4Directed by John Farrow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Boris Karloff, Beverly Roberts, Ricardo Cortez, Gordon Oliver, Sheila Bromley, Vladimir Nikolayevich Sokoloff
Rating59%
On a train bound for lawless northern China, businessman Gordon Creed (Ricardo Cortez) encounters acquaintance Myron Galt and his attractive daughter Lola (Sheila Bromley). Galt is on his way to foreclose on a very promising oilfield built up by Jim Hallet (Gordon Oliver). Creed, on the other hand, wants to offer Hallet enough money to pay off his loan from Galt (for a tidy share of the oilfield).
Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
, 1h38Directed by John Farrow, Harve Foster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Paul Muni, Anna Lee, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke, Robert Coote, Ray Collins
Rating64%
Erik Toresen (Paul Muni), a widower and peaceful man, is stirred to violence after the Nazis occupy his quiet Norwegian fishing village. German abuses lead Erik to form a Resistance group. He kills the head of the Nazis occupying his village, and then escapes to Britain, and guides some British Commandos to a raid on a secret airstrip the Germans are building on the Norwegian coast.