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Submarine Base is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 20 july 1943 with John Litel
Submarine Base (1943)
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Add to a movie listSubmarine Base is a 1943 American film directed by Albert H. Kelley for Producers Releasing Corporation. The working title was Raiders of the Pacific.
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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.Actors
John Litel
(James Xavier 'Jim' Taggart)
Alan Baxter
(Joe Morgan)
Eric Blore
(Spike, Morgan's Aide)
Rafael Storm
(Felipo)
Fifi D'Orsay
(Maria Styx)
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