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Director:
Joseph Pevney
Writers:
William Wister Haines (writer)
Richard Sale (screenplay)
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Release Date:
15 January 1959 (Australia) more
Genre:
War | Drama more
Plot:
A submarine commander is forced to blow up a Japanese ship with prisoners. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
User Comments:
only fair more

Cast

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Glenn Ford ... Lt. Cmdr. Barney Doyle

Ernest Borgnine ... Lt. Archer 'Archie' Sloan
Diane Brewster ... Jane Doyle

Dean Jones ... Lt. Jake 'Fuzz' Foley
L.Q. Jones ... 'Hash' Benson
Philip Ober ... Adm. Samuel Setton
Richard Carlyle ... Cmdr. Don Adams

Fredd Wayne ... Orville 'Goldy' Goldstein

Don Keefer ... Ens. Ron Milligan
Robert Hardy ... Lt. Redley
Paul Picerni ... Lt. Burt Fisher
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Additional Details

Runtime:
98 min | 95 min (TCM print)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System) | 4-Track Stereo

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
In Nov. 1958, MGM distributed this film on a double bill with Fiend Without a Face (1958) as the second feature. more
Goofs:
Continuity: In the scene where the submarine is using a torpedo to trigger mines, the torpedo triggers a mine but can be seen continuing on its course without damage. more

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11 out of 15 people found the following comment useful:-
only fair, 4 March 2001
5/10
Author: amolad from Los Angeles, Calif.

This is not such a successful movie. Glenn Ford is solid as always and Ernest Borgnine delivers a serviceable performance, but the problem is the script and direction. The story is on the sluggish side and after the midway point you don't have a sense of enough really at stake. The flashbacks to civilian life also take the audience out of the war story in a way that releases any built-up tension. Then the movie has to start all over.

The effects are also not terribly good, even by 1958 standards. Too many model shots of ships, and the interior of the sub really does feel like a studio set, especially due to the lighting design.

One thing that is especially interesting about TORPEDO RUN is a sub evacuation sequence in which the seamen exit the submarine at the floor of the ocean using Momsen-lungs, special breathing devices. These devices are very rarely shown in submarine movies.

A much, much better sub movie was released a few months before this one: RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP.

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