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Torpedo Run

Year:

1959

Duration:

98 min | 95 min (TCM print)

Genres:

War | Drama

IMDB rate:

6.4

Director:

Joseph Pevney

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar.

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1959-01-15

Filming Locations: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Glenn Ford

Ernest Borgnine

Lt. Archer 'Archie' Sloan

Diane Brewster

Jane Doyle

Dean Jones

Lt. Jake 'Fuzz' Foley

L.Q. Jones

'Hash' Benson

Philip Ober

Adm. Samuel Setton

Richard Carlyle

Cmdr. Don Adams

Fredd Wayne

Orville 'Goldy' Goldstein

Don Keefer

Ens. Ron Milligan

Robert Hardy

Lt. Redley

Paul Picerni

Lt. Burt Fisher

Kimberly Beck

Dede Doyle (uncredited)

Rudy Bukich

Sub Crewman (uncredited)

Howard Dayton

Walker (uncredited)

Sam Edwards

Coleman - Sub Radio Operator (uncredited)

Biff Elliot

Lt. Paul Buckeye (uncredited)

Al Freeman Jr.

Sam Baker (uncredited)

Frank Gorshin

Sub Crewman (uncredited)

Norman Grabowski

Sub Crewman (uncredited)

Virginia Gregg

Tokyo Rose (uncredited) (voice)

Jack Littlefield

Sub Crewman (uncredited)

Frank London

Al Garrity (uncredited)

Karl Lukas

Hallert (uncredited)

Celeste Madamba

Terese (uncredited)

Joe McCabe

Primo (uncredited)

Edward McNally

Pete Waldeman (uncredited)

Peter Miller

Jojo Hunter (uncredited)

Lyn Osborn

Hannigan - Sub Crewman (uncredited)

Hugh Pryor

Jennings (uncredited)

Louis Quinn

Sub Crewman (uncredited)

Don Reardon

Sub Crewman (uncredited)

Robert Reed

Woolsey (uncredited)

Jeffrey Sayre

Nightclub Extra in Flashback (uncredited)

William Schallert

Capt. Randy Vandercook - Skipper of the 'Bluefin' (uncredited)

Ken Wales

Meadows (uncredited)

James Winslow

Sub Crewman (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Archer 'Archie' Sloan's name is a likely reference to the U.S.S. Archerfish, which in 1944 sank the Japanese super-carrier Shinano, the largest warship ever sunk by a submarine.

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In Nov. 1958, MGM distributed this film on a double bill with Fiend Without a Face (1958) as the second feature.

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This movie represents one of a select group of a few World War II submarine movies which have won the one single Academy Award in a technical category, that's just only the one Oscar in either special effects or sound editing. These movies include Crash Dive (1943); The Enemy Below (1957); Torpedo Run (1958) and U-571 (2000). The non-WW II sub-movie, The Hunt for Red October (1990) also won just the one Oscar as did the WW 2 part sub-movie 49th Parallel (1941), but for Best Original Story.

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Goofs

Towards the end of the film, when the Grayfish is lying on the bottom, the captain urges the radioman to keep trying to contact the Bluefin (the other submarine) on the radio, and the radioman replies, "I'm broadcasting, sir," while he works his Morse Code key. The Bluefin eventually answers. Conventional radio signals will not penetrate underwater. However, the QC sonar onboard WWII submarines was set up so that it could be used in conjunction with a straight key for Morse Code sonar pulses for emergency communication, so the scene depicted is plausible.

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There was no such ship as the Shinaru leading the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. There were six aircraft carriers, all of them committed planes to the attack. Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu, Soryu, Shokaku and Zuikaku. The first four listed were all sunk at the Battle of Midway in June of 1942. The others were sunk later. Shokaku was sunk by the submarine USS Cavalla in June 1944, while Zuikaku was sunk by aircraft in October 1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

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When they torpedo the net tender you can see it beginning to sink before the torpedo makes contact.

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Quotes

Sub Crewman: [standing waist-deep in freezing Aleutian water] Have you ever felt anything this cold?

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