grantss Great WW2 drama. The story of a the crew of a merchant ship, crossing the Atlantic during World War 2, the perils they face and how they cope with them.Gritty, with a real feel to it. Being made in 1943, it has a degree of propaganda and the inevitable speeches, but not to the extent of most other WW2 movies. This makes it much more watchable today than your average WW2 movie.Has a few historical inaccuracies, but they are not overly impactful on the feel of the movie.Solid performances from Humphrey Bogart (as you would expect), Raymond Massie and the supporting cast.

svescapekey "Action in the North Atlantic" was a disappointing, predictable, trite propaganda film. I can only assume that Humphrey Bogart did this movie out of patriotism, for this is no Casablanca or Maltese Falcon.There isn't really a plot, I cannot imagine how one could even write a spoiler about this movie. After the first ten minutes you know the rest of it. It essentially glorifies the US effort to deliver logistics across the Atlantic, but does not in any way expound on this objective (other than that it's a good thing that we deliver).The acting is contrived and formula-like, the minor characters frequently get on political soapboxes; pontification about God, country and President Roosevelt abound.I'd recommend this movie only in the context of seeing how Hollywood supported the US war effort.

fedor8 Russkie 1: "It's a miracle!" Russkie 2: "That isn't a miracle! It's American seamanship."This is the kind of cheesy dialogue that steadily supplies the viewer in AITNA. This fairly solid little war movie, with some rather obvious occasional stock-footage, is blatant political propaganda. However, there is nothing wrong with that in times of war, especially a war against the Germans. One reviewer here refers to AITNA as a semi-documentary, which was quite a funny thing to read. So does that mean that Ed Wood's films are also semi-documentaries just because he used stock footage? Or was this guy referring to the "unbelievably realistic" dialogue here? Speaking of political propaganda films, if Michael Moore had made a movie about the war in 1943, it probably would have been called "The Nazis Love Their Children, Too", advocating that America immediately surrender. In it, he would have accused the last Republican President for causing the war in the first place.I always preferred this kind of Bogart, the type that doesn't speak through his teeth and says "dame" every 10 seconds.

DKosty123 This is a quality propaganda film about the World War 2 effort. It is designed purely to prop up the home front. It is quite effective in this effort.The cast- Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale & Dane Clark is very strong. Granted the cast doesn't get a lot of quality dialog but it does pretty well with what they do have. The sailors wife is really well illustrated.A whole section of the film is kind of a World War 2 headline for diversity (which was invented way before the 1990's). It shows our hero's ship steaming into Nova Scotia & how diverse a fleet is there from many Allied Countries to ship war materials to fight the Nazi's.The action sequences in this war time film are well done, & the lack of mechanical detail had much to do with the war effort. While a type of sonar is mentioned, no mention is made of radar & everything appears to be quite crude. This doesn't make the action suffer.