The read
Critics rate it 19 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine spectacle and cold war heroics.
Ratings
IMDb6.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes80%
Critics rate it 19 points higher than audiences do.
67 audience votes
Key crew
- Samuel FullerDirector
- Jesse Lasky Jr.Screenplay
- Samuel FullerScreenplay
- Alfred NewmanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Richard WidmarkCapt. Adam Jones
- Bella DarviDenise Montel
- Victor FrancenProf. Montel
- Cameron Mitchell'Ski' Brodski
- Gene EvansChief Holter
- David WayneTugboat Walker
- Stephen BekassyNeuman
- Richard LooHakada Fujimori
- Robert AdlerWelles (uncredited)
- Eugene BordenFrench Reporter (uncredited)
- Leslie BradleyMr. Aylesworth (uncredited)
- Henry KulkyMcCrossin (uncredited)
Stills
Themes
submarinealaska