Corvette K-225

This fine above average film about the Royal Canadian Navy, is a perfect showcase for Randolph Scott to prove his versatility as an actor, out of the saddle of westerns. He gives a strong performance as Lieut.

An exciting tale of Captain Randolph Scott, his corvette and his crew, shepherding an allied convoy from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to England, and fighting off U-boats along the way.Scott and some of his men have survived the sinking of their previous ship.

I hadn't seen this movie for many years, and when I watched it again recently I was amazed at the surprising realism for a 1942 era war propaganda movie. Veteran skipper Randolph Scott is forced to put to sea in a new corvette (a very small ship) with almost no other experienced crew members, and virtually no time to train the new crew.

This may be the best of the World War II era submarine warfare movies made during the war. The captain, played by the always wonderful Randolph Scott (see him in "Gung Ho") has just lost an officer on a booby-trapped German sub - and then he comes across the always beautiful and luminous Ella Raines on shore who is the resentful sister of the dead officer.

A corvette, I learned from this picture, is a type of small warship. Randolph Scott is captain of such a ship, assigned by the Canadian navy to escort a convoy of ships and war supplies headed across the Atlantic.

The unsung contribution of the Royal Canadian Navy in providing escort service for Atlantic convoys gets its tribute in Corvette K-225. The film is very similar to the Humphrey Bogart classic Action In the North Atlantic.

****I checked with a military buff friend of mine to be sure, but the Corvette was the Canadian name for a ship that would be classified as a destroyer escort**** I certainly agree with your assessment of the movie, but I'm going to "split a hair or two" about how a Corvette compares to other navy ships.Actually, a Corvette was quite a bit smaller than an American Destroyer Escort.