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A World War II US Navy submarine officer, Commander P.J. Richardson, is determined to get revenge on an ace Japanese
destroyer captain, nicknamed "Bungo Pete", who has sunk four US submarines in the Bungo Straits, including his previous
command. He persuades the Navy Board to give him a new submarine command with the provision that his executive officer
be someone who has just returned from active sea patrol. He single-mindedly trains the crew of his new boat, the USS
Nerka, to return to the Bungo Straits and sink Bungo Pete, in spite of the Navy's expressly forbidding him from
approaching the Bungo Straits on this mission. Richardson's executive officer, Lieutenant Commander Jim Bledsoe,
is worried about the safety of his boat and his crew. He also resents Richardson and the Navy leadership for denying
him command of the Nerka, which he believes should have been his. Richardson begins to rigorously drill the crew on a
rapid bow shot: firing at the bow of an approaching ship, considered an act of desperation due to a vessel's extremely
narrow profile. He then bypasses one target, only to take on a Japanese destroyer with a bow shot. The crew is outraged
as it discovers that Richardson is avoiding legitimate targets in order to enter the Bungo Straits undetected in direct
violation of his mission orders.
Finally, they come upon a large convoy. Soon after blowing up a cargo ship and then engaging Bungo Pete, they are attacked
by aircraft that had been alerted to their presence and were waiting in ambush. They are forced to dive and barely survive
depth charges. Three of the crew are killed, and Richardson suffers an incapacitating concussion. The submarine also narrowly
dodges what the crew mistakenly believes is one of their own torpedoes doubling back on them. By sending up blankets, equipment,
and the bodies of the dead, they convince the Japanese that the submarine has been sunk. Bledsoe uses Richardson's injury to
assume command and set course for Pearl Harbor. While listening to Tokyo Rose proclaiming the sinking of their boat, several
crewmen are mystified about how the Japanese are able to identify several of them by name. Bledsoe realizes that the Japanese
have analyzed their floating trash, so he decides to turn that to his advantage. Since the Japanese believe the Nerka has been
sunk, he returns to the Bungo Straits to fight the destroyer Akikaze, which the submarine sinks, only to be attacked again by
a mystery torpedo. Richardson deduces that the Akikaze was not working alone to sink US submarines; a Japanese submarine was
working in concert with it. He orders the boat into a dive just seconds before a Japanese torpedo races by. The Nerka forces
its adversary to surface and destroys it. Richardson then collapses on the bridge, dies, and is buried at sea.
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Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden, Don Rickles, Brad Dexter
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Director: Robert Wise
Producer: Harold Hecht
Released - March 27, 1958
Length - 93 minutes
Music Composer: Franz Waxman
Movie Distributed by United Artists
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