[DemforBush]

This is just a darn good movie. 'Nuff said. 7.5/10

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Previous week's offerings:

The Stranger7/10

Decision Before Dawn7.5/10

The Woman in the Window8/10

Plunder Road6.75/10

The Hitch-Hiker7/10

The Big Heat8.5/10

Stalag 178/10

[JennysCool]

Yup. Great flick.

[Celtic Conservative]

It was also the inspiration for the star trek: TOS episode “balance of terror”.

CC

[Nepeta]

A wonderful movie. One of my favorites.

AND there is an episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea which lifts the plot of the movie AND uses extensive footage from the movie! Season 2, episode 15, "Killers of the Deep"

[tophat9000]

This in the movie that Star Trek ripped off that introduce the Romulan.. and to mimic the stealth nature of submarines had to invent the plot device of the Romulan cloaking device

[MasterGunner01]

“The Enemy Below” is such a good script that Star Trek used variations of it twice; “Balance of Terror” in the original series and the second ST movie “The Wrath of Khan”. The TV series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea recycled the storyline as “Killers of the Deep”.

For Navy buffs, the Buckley-class destroyer escort does a very credible job demonstrating how submarines were hunted in WW2. Especially good is the actual use of live depth charges from rolloff racks and K-guns. The sound track even captures the “thunk” when the hydrostatic pistol fires to detonate the depth charge. The gunfight and ramming sequence at the end of the film is compromised by inadequate special effects. The models of the DE and U-boat and models look like models due to the composition of the flames and the water that cannot be scaled.

The fictional USS Haynes (DE-181) was actually the USS Whitehurst (DE-634) captained by LCDR Walter R. Smith. Twentieth Century Fox leased the ship from the Navy for filming over a six week period in 1957. USS Whitehurst was sunk as a target by a torpedo from USS Trigger (SS-564) on 28 April 1971.

[Gefn]

Ooh, I love Star Trek, I’ll see this tomorrow afternoon.

Thank you.

[onedoug]

I remember this movie from when I was a kid. I must have seen it some hundred times by now, and it still holds up.

A real credit to Dick Powell who directed.

[left that other site]

One of my all-time favorite submarine movies! :-)

[Jacquerie]

I just watched it this Saturday afternoon, a matinee.

Great flick.

[Bratch]

Same movie, no subtitles.

The Enemy Below 1957