mark.waltz Take a gangster in hiding, a detective who happens to have known him in civilization, some tough New York chorus girls and submarine driving Nazis and you've got the type of World War II nonsense that could only come from PRC. The storyline starts off silly and continues to grow more silly as time progresses. John Liteland Alan Baxter are dettective and former gangster, with eccentric Eric Blore trying vainly to thow in some sophistication. Over-the-top Iris Adrian bellows every one of her lines as if she was biting into a lobster, shell and all. Yes, there's plenty of action and hand saluting patriotism, but it is all falsely presented.

MartinHafer "Submarine Base" is a film by the ultra-tiny PRC Studio and in one of the 'macho' roles is Eric Blore--these alone are reasons to suspect it's a bad film! And, this is pretty much the case.The film begins with an American gangster on an island where he is meeting with Nazi submarines to supply them with torpedoes!! Talk about a silly and impossible to believe scenario. Well, unfortunately it gets even sillier as he and his macho friend (Blore) find a sailor floating in the sea in the middle of the ocean. This guy just happens to be the same cop who had tried to capture the gangster for murder some time back. So, we are expected to believe this sort of coincidence! Talk about suspending disbelief! Well the rest of the film is pretty trivial but by the end (in a VERY jingoistic finale), the two join forces to defeat the forces of international evil! Saying this is contrived is a huge understatement. While I love a good patriotic WWII propaganda film, this one was just dumb.

jt_3d I agree, Alan Baxter was kind of dull in this. But my main beef with this movie is it's simply too hard to believe that this guy can cause six UBoots to sink and the Germans don't figure out to stop sending boats there for resupply.Our hero, a character with a questionable history, has set up his own little anti-submarine corps. Supplying torpedoes to the Kreigsmarine. However he rigs one to explode on it's own and tells the captain to go out and sit on the bottom for four hours, supposedly because of the tide. Of course it's really so...well you get the idea. He then pays for a party so there's too much noise to hear the submarine blow up...and never any wreckage I suppose. Why not just let the thing sail out and blow up at some random time? So six boats go missing right after making contact with this guy and yet the Nazis don't suspect a thing. Oh well, there was a war on and they needed to keep the morale up so they made movies like this.Normally I can suspend disbelief but this one is just too far-fetched. Even though I do like this movie, 5/10

dbborroughs Base American fugitive Joe Morgan, now a ship's captain is running a reloading base for Nazi submarines. While out on the sea he picks up a man floating in the water. It's a cop who Morgan thought framed him for murder. The cop is now merchant seaman. Morgan takes the cop to St Jean, a small island where pirates once hung out and quick buck can be made. At this point the film becomes the story of what happens on land as Morgan tries to deal with the cop, the girls who want to go back to America and the people on the island. Good but should have been great film is sunk by the actor playing Morgan. How this guy ended up as the lead in anything is beyond me since he's so stiff and wooden that one wonders what cigar store is missing their Indian. Still the film is worth seeing with the sequences involving the Nazi subs and subterfuge around them is good enough to over come any flaws.