Action in the North Atlantic - Authentic Region 1 DVD from Warner Brothers starring Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey & Alan Hale
by Lloyd Bacon
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Director: Lloyd BaconPrimary Contributor: Humphrey Bogart
Primary Contributor: Raymond Massey
Primary Contributor: Alan Hale
Primary Contributor: Ruth Gordon
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 127 unknown-units
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Brothers
Product features:
- Release Date: October 3, 2006
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Movie Review: Delivering the Goods...
Summary: 5 Stars
Much of Allied success in the Second World War depended on the delivery by sea of American munitions, tanks, and planes to our allies in Great Britain and Russia. The men of the U.S. Merchant Marine manned the liberty ships that delivered the goods against tremendous odds in the form of German submarine and aircraft attack. 1943's "Action in the North Atlantic", filmed while that battle was still in progress, is a tribute to their courage.
"Action in the North Atlantic" follows the crew of a liberty ship in their journey across the North Atlantic and then across the North Sea, bound for the port of Murmansk in Soviet Russia. Raymond Massy is the stalwart ship's captain, Humphrey Bogart his sympathetic lieutenent, and Alan Hale the rowdy but effective bosun's mate. The crew is the obligatory cross section of humanity, including a ship's engineer with a broad Scottish accent, a sailor whose feet hurt when a submarine is around, and an augmentation of young Navy gunners who help defend the ship.
The ship survives a hair-raising crossing of the North Atlantic, as German submarines repeatedly challenge its convoy. One German submarine in particular makes the war personal, pursuing the liberty ship into the North Sea. The climax of the movie is a suspensful cat-and-mouse duel to the death between Bogart, now acting ship's captain, and the wily German submarine captain. A mass burial at sea provides Bogart the opportunity to put into appropriate words the credo and patriotism of his merchant mariners.
For a wartime effort, the movie is remarkably even-handed. The German submariners are portrayed as the tough and competent fighters they were. The movie finds time to pay homage to the regular Navy and the Army Air Corps for their parts in the Battle of the North Atlantic. The special efforts pale in comparison to today's CGI, but were state of the art for the time. Real footage is intercut with the simulations to add to the effect of ships racing around the ocean.
This movie is very highly recommended as a suspenseful war movie and as an exemplar of its wartime genre.
Summary of Action in the North Atlantic - Authentic Region 1 DVD from Warner Brothers starring Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey & Alan Hale
This is an Authentic Region 1 DVD from Warner Brothers released on October 3, 2006. Includes, Vintage newsreel, Musical short 'Cavalcade of Dance', Classic cartoon 'Greetings Bait', Trailers for Action in the North Atlantic and Northern Pursuit, Credit Where Credit Is Due featurette, Radio show with George Raft and Raymond Massey (Audio-Only).Classics DVD Video
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