Action in the North Atlantic (1943)

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Film, Comedy, History, War, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Can the Merchant Marines inspire a nation of teens to join the military? On today's episode Adam, Ben, and John train themselves to have an iron nerve—while they review this 1943 propaganda picture! Available on: Amazon, Apple, and your local library Support our show. Next Film: War Witch (2012) Available on: Amazon, Apple, and your local library

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0:00.0	There's been an upsetting lack of Humphrey Bogart in the Friendly Fire Uvra, and today's film begins to remedy that.
0:07.0	Action in the North Atlantic is a just totally right over the plate propaganda film of the highest order.
0:14.7	But it's weird that it's not explicitly asking you to buy war bonds or join the Army or
0:18.8	the Navy.
0:19.8	No.
0:20.8	It's riding for the...
0:22.4	Merchant Marines? Who the hell are they?
0:25.0	My granddad was a Merchant Marine and I never really knew what that was until watching this movie.
0:31.0	I want to believe that he was more like Bogarts Joe Rossi than
0:34.0	But he died a long time ago and I can't ask him who his guy was.
0:38.8	R. I.P. Grandpa.
0:40.8	Bogarts are main character, but he's not the captain.
0:44.5	That job belongs to Steve Jarvis.
0:46.7	It's a different kind of Captain XO relationship than we've gotten before.
0:50.3	These guys actually share a mutual respect for each other, and Bogart's not looking to stab Jarvis in the back and take his job.
0:57.0	How refreshing!
0:58.0	Jarvis actually has his ship destroyed in the first act, and it doesn't make you think any less of him
1:03.6	and that's because he does that heroic run through the flames thing to save the
1:07.4	last of his crewman before the ship sinks and the ship effects here are just
1:11.7	spectacular.
1:13.0	There's no way this film didn't disfigure a lot of stuntmen.
1:17.0	Anyway, with their ship gone, the crew, the ones who weren't chopped up in the propellers of the U-boat that sank their ship.
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