I most appreciated this film as one of a pair of Eric Portman bookends along with his role in The Bedford Incident. Here, Portman's raw talent is fully on display playing a Goebbels-spouting Nazi U-boat commander. In the later work, we see a far more polished, understated actor reminding Sidney Poitier's character that he had served not in Hitler's navy but in Admiral Dönitz's.
This is above average wartime propaganda in which I think Leslie Howard stole the show.
This is above average wartime propaganda in which I think Leslie Howard stole the show.