Submarine Base (film)

Submarine Base
Directed by	Albert H. Kelley
Written by	George M. Merrick Arthur St. Claire
Produced by	Jack Schwarz
Starring	See below
Cinematography	Marcel Le Picard
Edited by	Holbrook N. Todd
Music by	Charles Dant
Distributed by	Producers Releasing Corporation
Release date	20 July 1943
Running time	65 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Submarine Base is a 1943 American war film directed by Albert H. Kelley for Producers Releasing Corporation. The working title was Raiders of the Pacific.

Plot

Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.

Cast

• John Litel as James Xavier "Jim" Taggart
• Alan Baxter as Joe Morgan
• Eric Blore as Spike, Morgan's aide
• Georges Metaxa as Nazi Agent Anton Kroll
• George Flaherty as David Cavanaugh
• Rafael Storm as Felipo
• Fifi D'Orsay as Maria Styx
• Iris Adrian as Dorothy
• Jacqueline Dalya as Judy Pierson
• Anna Demetrio as Angela Styx
• Luis Alberni as Mr. Styx
• Lucien Prival as German Submarine Captain Mueller

External links

• Submarine Base at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Submarine Base at IMDb
• Submarine Base is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive