The Enemy Below

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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The Enemy Below: Is this simply a cat and mouse Naval adventure? Or is the takeaway more about knowing thine adversary? On today's episode Adam, Ben, and John anxiously prepare their pork chops while reviewing this 1957 drama! The Enemy Below is available on Amazon, Youtube, Google, Vudu, and iTunes The next film, Paisan (1946), is available on Amazon, YouTube, Google Play, Vudu, iTunes, and your local library

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0:00.0	Okay, your hosts are back in their sweet spot.
0:07.0	A World War II Submarine Pork Chop movie from 1957.
0:11.0	This is the whole reason they started the show.
0:15.0	Before they got waylaid by demoralizing films from Japan and Palestine and
0:19.0	and weird romantic dramedies about Genghis Khan?
0:23.7	Thank goodness, the random numeral generator
0:26.8	brought us back to our favorite food.
0:29.2	Yum.
0:30.8	Get a load of this trope salad.
0:33.0	Robert Mitchum is the brand new captain of a Navy destroyer.
0:36.9	His tight-knit crew are just not sure about him.
0:40.6	Maybe he's a coward, or a landlubber.
0:43.0	The scuttle butt is that maybe he's both?
0:46.0	Kurt Jurgens is a grizzled veteran U-boat captain,
0:49.0	sympathetically portrayed as an anti-Nazi war-fighting intellectual of the old school.
0:55.0	Maybe he's unstable or drunk or a traitor?
0:59.0	Probably all three.
1:01.0	It's a game of cat and mouse that the cat is dumping an astonishingly unrealistic
1:06.2	number of depth charges on the mouse while he fights like hell despite deep misgivings
1:11.7	with the goal of the war because he's old school.
1:17.0	The one trope-buster is that on the sub, the captain and the XO are friends when they should be locked in some tussle for command or sleeping
1:26.0	with one another's wives or something. But that doesn't slow us down. Yes, we're waiting waste
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