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Action, Drama, War
Warner Bros.  (1959) 111 mins Approved

6.4 (396 votes)
The Adventures That Tore the Ocean Floor!

Ken Braden is a 90-day wonder, rushed through special training, given lieutenant's bars and thrown into World War II. He's an underwater demolitions expert who'll put his training to work in the Pacific - if he survives the submarine trek to his destination, a voyage full of dive-bombing death from above and depth-charged hell below.

On a break from TV's Maverick, James Garner plays Braden, a Navy frogman whose orders take him from a stateside romance to perilous ocean warfare. Academy Award® winner Edmond O'Brien as the hard-nosed skipper, Alan Hale (Gilligan's Island) as a dead-eye gunner, football great Frank Gifford, Edward (77 Sunset Strip) Byrnes and in his first film, an unbilled Warren Oates, are all on board....

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Cast and Crew
James Garner  ......  Lt. Kenneth Braden
Edmond O'Brien  ......  Commander Paul Stevenson
Andra Martin  ......  Sally Johnson
Alan Hale Jr.  ......  Lt. Pat Malone
Carleton Carpenter  ......  Lt. Phil Carney
Frank Gifford  ......  Ensign Cy Mount
Director  .....  Gordon Douglas
Producer  .....  Aubrey Schenck; Aubrey Schenk
Writer  .....  Robb White; Richard Landau; Richard H. Landau
Notes
Trivia:
All underwater miniature submarine shots were reused from the film Destination Tokyo (1943). (more)