Biff Elliot, Curd J?rgens, Curd Jürgens

In The Enemy Below Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens are respectively captains of a U.S. destroyer and a German U-boat whose vessels come into conflict in the South Atlantic. Both are good men wi...( read more  read more... )th a job to do, the script noting Jurgens' distaste for Hitler and the Nazis and engaging our sympathy with the German sailors almost as much as the Americans. Made at the height of the cold war of the 1950s, the film delivers a liberal message of co-operation wrapped inside some spectacular action scenes and a story which builds to a tense and exciting, moving finale. --Gary S. Dalkin

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Unrated, 98 min.

Directed by: Dick Powell

Release Date: December 25, 1957

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DVD Release Date: May 25, 2004

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  • January 31, 2008
    Great old school WWII submarine movie. The U S of A saves the world singlehandedly again! Gene Coon used the premise for the Star Trek episode "Balance of Terror".
  • May 9, 2008
    Brilliant. Love the underse death aspect.
  • September 18, 2009
    Best sumbarine film I've seen so far. The war sequences are very well made and the performances are adequate to the atmosphere and story. Good effort.

    83/100
  • February 9, 2009
    Great WWII Sub movie
    Although the end was a bit ...
  • July 23, 2008
    nominated for best picture by NBR
  • April 29, 2008
    alright i sppose; the grandaddy of all those war boat/sub movie, with an altogether too chummy end with jurgens and mitchum having a homoerotic moment that would make graham norton blush. mitchum was a ham but the movie had its moments of tensiion and drama, and lots of blowing u...( read more)p stuff too.
  • January 6, 2008
    this is a classic war movie where neither man wants to loose but that is it in war there has to be a winner and a looser. it is not a bad plot the acting is not bad i am not war film fan but i liked this
  • December 9, 2007
    Watch with Das Boot and U-571.
  • December 7, 2007
    haven't seen it but looks good
  • November 12, 2007
    Mitchum and kurt jurgens boths brilliant

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  • thomasgibson
    March 18, 2007
    excellent film all time great really enjoyed this film

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