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Overview

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6.9/10   1,111 votes
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Director:
Lloyd Bacon
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Writers:
John Howard Lawson (screenplay)
Guy Gilpatric (story)
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Release Date:
12 June 1943 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | War more
Tagline:
Warner Bros. thunderous story of the men of the merchant marine!
Plot:
Lieutenant Joe Rossi is 1st Officer on a Liberty Ship in a great convoy bound from Halifax to Murmansk... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
User Comments:
Memorial for the merchant heroes more

Cast

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Humphrey Bogart ... Lt. Joe Rossi
Raymond Massey ... Capt. Steve Jarvis
Alan Hale ... Boats O'Hara
Julie Bishop ... Pearl

Ruth Gordon ... Mrs. Sarah Jarvis
Sam Levene ... Chips Abrams
Dane Clark ... Johnnie Pulaski
Peter Whitney ... Whitey Lara
Dick Hogan ... Cadet Robert Parker
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Additional Details

Runtime:
126 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | German
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (certificate #8706) | Australia:G (TV rating) | Canada:PG (video rating) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Spain:T | Sweden:15

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Trivia:
When shooting the scene early in the movie, when their characters abandoned ship from their burning tanker, Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey got into a friendly argument over who had the better stunt double. In the end, the two stars decided to do away with their stunt doubles altogether and wound up doing the stunt themselves. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When the ill-fated Jinks is trapped in the burning rec room during the opening attack, he pounds on the door and flames are flicking through the door frame on the immediate right of him. When one of the crew comes to rescue him, the reverse shot shows no flame whatever within immediate area of the door or frame. more
Quotes:
Mrs. Jarvis: For a sailor's wife war is just another storm. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Warner at War (2008) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Night and Day more

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12 out of 17 people found the following comment useful:-
Memorial for the merchant heroes, 7 February 2005
8/10
Author: Werner from Munich, Germany

I got to this movie more or less by chance and didn't know the background. However, this thing is rather gripping, suspenseful and emotional. It stars H. Bogart and R. Massey as the 2nd in command forced into the lead, when Massey as the skipper is heavily wounded in an air-attack on his Liberty freighter on the way to Murmansk. The ship is trailed by a German U-Boat, that is kept at distance during day light, but will certainly torpedo them at night and prevents them from rejoining their convoy, as they don't want to disclose it's course to the Germans. How they finally go thru alive and reach Murmansk offers many ways to show the heroics of the unlisted merchant sailors, who contributed in the same way as the Navy to the victory in war. All that is conveyed very well, sometimes to message-like, sometimes to much propaganda, but what you expect in 1943 ?. Some fun on the side : In the German (dubbed) version , all the Germans (esp. Pilots and Sub Marine Commanders) speak a (original, non dubbed) heavy chewing gum English, whereas the Americans speak perfect German. Such is the war (in the movies)

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