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Action In The North Atlantic

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	Action in the North Atlantic
Status:	All the torrents in this section have been verified by our verification system
Category:	Movies
Infohash	c324fd571d8e1cf1f46fbeb53550480d87f1bdd4
Size:	1.6 GB in 2 files
Release Date(s):	Theatrical Release: 1943-06-12 DVD Release: 2006-10-24 Torrent Release: 17-12-2012 by user
Swarm:	0 Seeds & 0 Peers
Movie Genre:	Action, Drama, War
Runtime:	126 min.
Parental Rating:	Passed
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Lieutenant Joe Rossi is 1st Officer on a Liberty Ship in a great convoy bound from Halifax to Murmansk. After German subs crushed the convoy his ship loses the convoy and is heading alone to Murmansk. In spite of attacks by German planes and subs he get the ship safely to Murmansk...

Here, a convoy of ships are bound for Soviet waters but are beset by Nazi warplanes and submarines.

May 22, 1943
THE SCREEN; ' Action in the North Atlantic,' Thrilling Film of Merchant Marine, Starring Humphrey Bogart, Opens at the Strand
By BOSLEY CROWTHER

With most of the uniformed services getting their due meed of cinematic praise, the Warners have not forgotten the generally unsung heroes of the merchant marine. And in a tingling, informative picture which thoroughly lives up to its tag of "Action in the North Atlantic," they are telling a triumphant tale of the men who go out in the freight boats and "deliver the goods" to the fighting fronts. Originally intended as a two-reeler but then expanded to feature-length, this new film, which opened yesterday with due ceremonies at the Strand, is one that will surely raise your temperature as well as your respect for the men of the merchant fleets.

For the Warners have not only crammed it with a lot of good documentary stuff—reliable information on how the merchant sailors work and live—but they have loaded it with much explosive action of the sort that provokes nervous thrills. And they have given a credible picture of the men who man the ships, from the officers right down to the wipers, and of their devotion and courage in their jobs.

The story opens with the sinking of a tanker by a submarine off the Grand Banks—a vivid and fiery representation which almost singes the audience's eyebrows. It is hard to conceive how a camera, even one on the very spot, could get a more authentic record of one of those crematorial tragedies at sea. Then, with a handful of survivors, it continues the moving account of their momentary onshore relaxations, their re-signing en masse on a new Liberty ship and a vivid report of further adventures in a convoy en route to Murmansk.

The first part of the picture is the best part. It has the clear ring of actuality. And there is one sequence of sailors talking in a union hall which has earthy eloquence. The latter part, showing a battle between a convoy and a wolf-pack of submarines—plus a subsequent encounter between one vessel and a sub and then a flight of bombing planes—is a bit too elaborately presented. In this part the Warners shoot the works, as they have a way of doing, with many models in an obvious studio tank. It would have been a better picture if these sequences had been less vivid, perhaps, but had caught more feel of the sea and tension. As it is, they sacrifice reality for effect.

However, some excellent performance help to hold the film together all the way. Raymond Massey and Humphrey Bogart are good and tough as the captain and first mate—the former with a cool, paternal firmness and the latter with his usual pliant strength. Sam Lavene and Bernard Zanville have genuine flavor as two sailors in the crew, especially the latter, who catches pathos and inner torment in that one scene in the union hall. And Ruth Gordon and Julie Bishop are touching in their brief roles as stay-at-home wives. (Alan Hale overacts as the bo'sun, but then he always does.)

But it's a good thing to have a picture which waves the flag for the merchant marine. Those boys are going through hell-and-high-water, as "Action in the North Atlantic" shows.

ACTION IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC; screen play by John Howard Lawson with additional dialogue by A. I. Bezzerides and W. R. Burnett; from a story by Guy Gilpatric; directed by Lloyd Bacon; produced by Jerry Wald for Warner Brothers. At the Strand.
Joe Rossi . . . . . Humphrey Bogart
Captain Steve Jarvis . . . . . Raymond Massey
Boats O'Hara . . . . . Alan Hale
Pearl . . . . . Julie Bishop
Mrs. Jarvis . . . . . Ruth Gordon
Chips Abrams . . . . . Sam Levene
Johnnie Pulaski . . . . . Bernard Zanville----name changed to Dane Clark.
Whitey Lara . . . . . Peter Whitney
Rear Admiral Hartridge . . . . . Charles Trowbridge
Caviar Jinks . . . . . J. M. Kerrigan
Cadet Robert Parker . . . . . Dick Hogan
Ensign Wright . . . . . Kane Richmond
Goldberg . . . . . Chic Chandler
Cecil . . . . . George Offerman
Lieutenant Commander . . . . . Don Douglas
Pete Larson . . . . . Art Foster
Aherne . . . . . Michael Ames
Captain Ziemer . . . . . Ludwig Stossel
Cherub . . . . . Dick Wessel
Jenny O'Hara . . . . . Iris Adrian

Action is the thing here, with plenty of unlucky sailors being burned, bashed by falling airplanes or chewed up in submarine propellers. If I were considering joining the Merchant Marine and caught Action In the North Atlantic at a matinee, I'd head back to my job at the soda fountain.