Storyline

On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier "Hiranamu", orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor. His ship encounters and sinks an American yacht and the single survivor, Sue Curry, is rescued by an American submarine, the "Sea Serpent", commanded by Commander Chris Warren. He hears her story and attempts to radio a warning to Pearl Harbor. Yamanada, hearing the signals, orders the airlines jammed, and then sends his son into the air to sink the sub. The attack fails, after the sub makes a crash dive, but they fail in their warning attempts. The next morning, December 7th, the men on the sub hear the story of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and devise a desperate plan to sink the Japanese carrier by letting the carrier know their position. The carrier comes in search of the submarine.—Les Adams

Plot Keywords

b movie, damsel in distress, airplane pilot, torpedo, short wave radio, chauffeur, radio operator, pacific ocean, hawaii, year 1941, stock footage, world war two, u.s. navy, deception, sneak attack, sailor, suicide mission, patriot, aircraft carrier, trap

Short Review

Okay WWII submarine thriller about a US sub pursuing a Japanese ship in the days leading up to Pearl Harbor. It's a decent enough of story, but it's kind of undone by it's minuscule budget and some laughably bad miniatures. And according to IMDB, Budd Boetticher did some uncredited directing on this film, though this film is certainly nowhere as good as films he did receive credit.

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