35mm

Mystery Submarine

Douglas Sirk
Part of

Imitations of Life: The Films of Douglas Sirk

December 23, 2015 - January 6, 2016

The first film Sirk directed upon signing his multi-year contract with Universal was this taut and suspenseful nautical thriller, in which a U.S. Naval Intelligence officer goes undercover to thwart a plot by remnants of the Third Reich to steal atomic secrets.

DIRECTOR
Douglas Sirk
YEAR
1950
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
78 minutes
FORMAT
35mm

The first film Sirk directed upon signing his multi-year contract with Universal was this post-WWII-set nautical thriller, starring Macdonald Carey as a U.S. Naval Intelligence officer who goes undercover to rescue a scientist kidnapped by a villainous Nazi commander (and thereby thwart a plot by the remnants of the Third Reich to steal atomic secrets) and sink a German submarine hidden off the coast of Mexico. A taut and suspenseful entertainment, Mystery Submarine finds Sirk playing with genre tropes and again confronting the global threat posed by Nazism, even after Germany’s WWII defeat.

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