Up Periscope

Up Periscope
by Gordon Douglas

Up Periscope
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Actor: Alan Hale Jr., Andra Martin, Carleton Carpenter, Edmond O'Brien, James Garner
Director: Gordon Douglas
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Carl E. Guthrie
Editor: John F. Schreyer
Producer: Aubrey Schenck
Writer: Richard H. Landau
Writer: Robb White
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-12-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video

Movie Reviews of Up Periscope

Movie Review: A great film.
Summary: 5 Stars

This is James Garner at his peak. He made this film during a hiatus from Maverick. This is one of the movies I enjoyed as a kid, and now get the opportunity to watch whenever I want. If you like WWII submarine films, this is a must have.

Summary of Up Periscope

A navy lieutenant (James Garner "Maverick") during World War II is ordered aboard a submarine to get special photographs of a Japanese-controlled island.

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Anyone with a fondness for the conventions of the submarine picture will be content with the modest pleasures of Up Periscope, a World War II melodrama starring James Garner in one of his early Maverick-era roles. Pulled away from a week-long romance, Garner tags along with the sub to a Japanese-held island, where he will SCUBA ashore and copy a secret radio code. On top of the reliable suspense of a man alone behind enemy lines, the film also offers captain Edmond O'Brien, whose previous mission has his crew suspecting him of cowardice. Will he cut and run before Garner returns to the submarine? Director Gordon Douglas made a batch of entertaining pictures over the years (a bunch of Sinatra titles, the giant-bug classic Them!, In Like Flint) and he coolly finds some effective ways to photograph men in the close quarters of a sub. The main draw is James Garner in his youthful prime; even if the movie doesn't exploit his comic talent, it shows how effortlessly he connects with an audience. The supporting cast consists of the kind of actors who inevitably seem to people a WWII ship's crew: solid character actors (Alan Hale Jr., who performed similar undersea duties in Destination Tokyo), oddballs and one-offs (Frank Gifford, Edd "Kooky" Byrnes), and future names (Warren Oates). --Robert Horton

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