Posted on 02/16/2024 4:29:12 AM PST by hardspunned
Reporter Ben Munceford (Sidney Poitier) is aboard a U.S. Navy ship sailing near the Arctic Circle, on assignment to write a profile of Capt. Eric Finlander (Richard Widmark), a hardened anti-communist. Despite the concerns of Munceford, medical officer Chester Potter (Martin Balsam) and others on the ship, Finlander is shadowing a Soviet submarine on patrol in the same area, hoping to make it to surface. The cat-and-mouse game, however, turns deadly serious.
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” ... if that happens we’ll have to fire one.”
“FIRE ONE SIR!”
great movie.
Reading On The Beach right now. Another Cold War era great.
ASROC
Book ‘em, Dano!
Red cabbage, cracked black pepper and potatoes 🥔🥔🥔
Because of this movie, I was curious what that tasted like.
Fried up diced white onions 🧅🧅🧅 in butter and then added the potatoes. Then tossed in the red cabbage 🥬🥬🥬 and added a little Italian dressing. Cracked black pepper and salt to taste.
Be sure you get the potatoes cooked properly then add the red cabbage.
Not bad.
Lesson One: never put Richard Widmark in command of a nuclear-armed ship.
There are a whole bunch of Capt. Finlanders currently running things in DC.
‘Alas, Babylon’ is another great novel in similar vein.
But, do you use Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil? ;)
Oddly enough, “this type of catastrophe” DID NOT happen during the Cold War with the USSR. There was a certain anti-American propaganda element to that movie. Note that the “bad guy”, being “provocative” and “escalatory” was American. Because of course he was. Po’ widdle innocent put-upon Soviets were NEVER provocative or escalatory.
That’s another nightmare scenario I thought we were done with 25 years ago. Remember how the war started?
That’s stupid way of looking at it. If you made the movie from the Soviet perspective it would be the same. Aren’t your concerns more with “po little innocent” warmongering Capt. Finlander, who started WWIII?
I liked the Russky submarine movie, “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming” much better!
The Soviet movies, I expect, were the same - the Westerner is the bad guy.
I think it has to do with who is making the movie.
On October 27, 1962, the U.S. fleet discovered a Soviet sub and started dropping minimally explosive training depth charges nearby as a signal that the sub should surface. The submarine commander assumed that he was under attack and decided to fire a nuclear torpedo at the pursuing U.S. ships. The launch was blocked though by the head of the Soviet submarine fleet, who by chance happened to be on board and ordered the sub to surface instead.
Not until decades later did the US and the world learn how close we came to nuclear war.
Thank you for confirming the legitimacy of my “way of looking at it”.
Exactly. The pinkos increasingly infesting this place don’t want us to recognize that fact.
Which photo is your dad? ;)
Pretty juvenile. Double back at you. How about some reasoning behind your position?
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