Quota Periscopio

Titolo originale: Up Periscope
Regia: Gordon Douglas |
Anno: 1959
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Guerra Avventura Azione
Tag: world war ii | u.s. navy | pacific theater | frogmen |
Cast: James Garner | Edmond O'Brien | Andra Martin | Alan Hale Jr. | Carleton Carpenter | Frank Gifford | William Leslie | Richard Bakalyan | Edd Byrnes | Sean Garrison | Henry Kulky | Warren Oates | Clifford Kawada | Frank Watkins | Peggy Moffitt | Bernie Hamilton |

Durante la seconda guerra mondiale, il sottotenente Braden approda su un'isola occupata dai giapponesi, dove l'ufficiale dovrà impadronirsi del cifrario segreto della flotta nemica. Durante il viaggio Braden e il comandante del sommergibile hanno un violento litigio che metterà a repentaglio l'armonia tra l'equipaggio e il comandante.

Errori

When Lt Braden is under the dock he hits his leg on something and rips his wet suit leg exposing his [...] D
Braden exits the sub at 4:00 AM to swim to shore, 500 yards away. This should have taken no more tha [...] D
There are a lot of uniform errors, and, there is no way that the Navy would allow an ensign to remai [...] D
When Lt. Braden is getting his final briefing from Cdr. Stevenson before leaving the sub, the compar [...] D
When Stevenson has his last minute talk with Braden before his diving mission he addresses Malone as [...] D
The Japanese are driving an American jeep. D
The opening title identifies the time period as 1942. When James Garner flies from San Diego to Hono [...] D
At about 1:00:40 the Capt. of the sub gives the order to fire torpedo one. Only he has not given the [...] D
The Captain when entering the lagoon also breaks his own rules calling for silent running and then l [...] D
Alan Hale Jr.'s character Pat Malone is listed in the IMDB cast list as being of the rank of Lieuten [...] D
It is not possible to weld underwater with an acetylene torch. D
The Jeep that carries Lt(jg) Braden (James Garner) up to the submarine is an M-38 that did not enter [...] D
When "Lt. Braden" locks out of the submarine to swim to the Japanese island, his aqualung's 2-hose r [...] D
The water barrel outside the Japanese steam room is clearly a western prop, with wide, rough staves [...] D
While the sub is running on the surface, the radar unit gives trouble. Just before the radar technic [...] D
The "Japanese" aircraft that attacks the submarine is a North American T-28 Trojan that did not ente [...] D
The Japanese pier holding gasoline shows barnacles on pier supports. After putting an incendiary dev [...] D
The underwater action is supposed to occur in the South Pacific, but the kelp (underwater vegetation [...] D
The aqua-lung was developed by Emile Gagnan and Jacques-Yves Cousteau only in 1943, hence it was una [...] D