U-Boat Prisoner
{{short description|1944 film by Lew Landers}}
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U-Boat Prisoner, also known as Dangerous Mists, is a 1944 American film. Direction was credited to Lew Landers.{{cite web|url=http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2006/38/boetticher/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404083832/http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2006/38/boetticher/|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 April 2012|first=Sean|last= Axmaker|title=Ride Lonesome: The Career of Budd Boetticher|website=Senses of Cinema|date=7 February 2006}} The script was written by Aubrey Wisberg. It was based on the book U-Boat Prisoner: The Life Story of a Texas Sailor by Archie Gibbs, who survived the sinking of two ships on successive days in World War II, the freighter Scottsburg, of which he was a crewman, on June 15, 1942, and the freighter Kahuku—which had picked up Scottsburg survivors— on June 16, and was taken prisoner.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/1998/april/unsinkable-archie-gibbs |title=Unsinkable Archie Gibbs |author=Captain James E. Wise, Jr., U.S. Navy (Retired) |date=April 1998 |magazine=Naval History |volume=12 |issue=2 |accessdate=May 19, 2025}}
Plot
The Gestapo sends Gunther Rudehoff aboard a U-boat commanded by Captain Ganz, much to their mutual displeasure. Rudehoff's mission is to retrieve a valuable Axis agent who escaped aboard a freighter. The agent drops a lifeboat at a prearranged location and swims to it. Ganz, observing this, torpedoes the freighter. However, freighter crewman Archie Gibbs swims to the lifeboat, disposes of the agent, and is taken aboard the U-boat, where he is mistaken for the German-American agent.
Cast
- Bruce Bennett as Archie Gibbs
- Erik Rolf as Capt. Ganz
- John Abbott as Alfonse Lamont
- John Wengraf as Gunther Rudehoff
Production
Budd Boetticher said, that the film was "an eight day picture". He claims that he was called in to help finish it, as he had with Landers' Submarine Raider.Budd Boetticher: The Last Interview
Wheeler, Winston Dixon. Film Criticism; Meadville Vol. 26, Iss. 3, (Spring 2002): 52-0_3.
Boetticher called Landers "a no-talent guy. They called him the "D" director there at Columbia; he just wasn't any good. Whenever they had a picture they didn't really care about, they'd give it to Landers."
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0037411}}
- [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/94298/u-boat-prisoner U Boat Prisoner] at TCMDB
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Category:American war drama films
Category:World War II films made in wartime
Category:Columbia Pictures films
Category:1940s war drama films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films with screenplays by Aubrey Wisberg
Category:1940s English-language films
Category:Films directed by Lew Landers
Category:English-language war drama films
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