Torpedo Run

In the scene where the submarine is using a torpedo to trigger mines, the torpedo triggers a mine but can be seen continuing on its course without damage.

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.

- PLOTThere 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, but none by submarines.

When all bow torpedoes are shot at the anti-submarine net from inside Tokyo Bay to blast a hole for the sub to escape, as the torpedoes are shown speeding away from the sub and toward the camera, when they get close to the camera the guide wires on which they run can be seen.

Normally, I am not overly impressed with Ernie Borgnine and Glenn Ford. They're okay for the most part, but in this particular film they were themselves and played beautifully off each other.

This is one of these films that we don't get nowadays and hasn't been produced for decades . Hardly surprising since 1945 only two submarines have killed ships in conflict .

Choosing from among the war time navel stories written by Richard Sale, director Joseph Pevney selected this one entitled " Torpedo Run. " It tells the saga of Lt.

Glenn Ford and Ernest Borgnine do well in this 1958 drama, but the writing is limited.Ford has an ultimate personal decision to make.

This is a reasonably well-done tale of a submarine commanded by Glenn Ford, with Ernest Borgnine as his friend and executive officer, during World War II.Ford and Borgnine are called back from the Philippines to Pearl Harbor, leaving Ford's wife and little girl behind.

I happen to like submarine movies, but normally the plot situations are the same in every one of them. Torpedo Run though it bares most resemblance to the Cary Grant World War II film from Warner Brothers, Torpedo Run has a unique involvement of Ford's family in combat.

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More a drama than an action film, this movie may have a fairly simplistic plot line and a few implausible events but it's primarily about the sort of awful decisions men sometimes have to make in war and the actors all do an admirable job of conveying different reactions to the consequences of a bad call. Particularly good is Glenn Ford as a commander who finds himself risking the lives of his own wife and child for the greater good.

It is one of the most excellent movie of war I have ever seen. The personality of captain and his second officer grow along the film, making it very believable.