crash-dive

• Director: Archie Mayo
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: War Romance, War Drama
• Themes: Military Life, Heroic Mission, War At Sea
• Main Cast: Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, James Gleason, Dame May Whitty
• Release Year: 1943
• Country: US
• Run Time: 105 minutes

Plot

Tyrone Power made his last screen appearance before a three-year stretch in the Marines in this World War II drama. Lt. Ward Stewart (Tyrone Power) has served with distinction as the commander of a PT boat, so his uncle, Adm. Bob Stewart (Minor Watson), gives him a new and more challenging assignment aboard a submarine. Before shipping out, Ward enjoys a night on the town, where he meets and romances a pretty schoolteacher, Jean Hewlett (Anne Baxter). However, when Ward reports for duty, he discovers he'll be serving under Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors (Dana Andrews), who happens to be Jean's boyfriend. On leave and on land, Ward and Dewey are soon caught up in a romantic rivalry, while on duty and under the water they must work together to ferret out Nazi U-boats. Crash Dive received an Academy Award nomination for the special effects work in the film's battle sequences. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Review

Crash Dive is a thoroughly enjoyable submarine film, provided that one approaches it in the right frame of mind. That frame includes remembering that Crash was made during war time and as such will be regarded (justifiably) by modern audiences as propagandistic. That frame also means accepting that most of the story is merely an excuse to lead up to the climactic battle sequence, and that little of real substance occurs in all the back-and-forth-ing about Tyrone Power and Dana Andrews both being in love with Anne Baxter. Interestingly, there's more substance in sections involving minor characters, especially that played by Ben Carter. A black man, Carter's character is in the film for propaganda purposes, to acknowledge the contributions of African-Americans in the war effort. Being 1943, the film can't go all the way and give him a full-scale hero role or deal with some of the issues faced by servicemen of color, but it does treat the character with more respect than was usual for the time. There's also a moving interaction between Carter and James Gleason. Of the leads, Baxter is a little inexperienced but does well, and Power and Andrews use their skills and personas to good effect. And once the film moves into action gear, it delivers the goods in a big way. The special effects will seem dated to some, but they are exceptional for the period. ~ Craig Butler, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Tyrone Power - Lt. Ward Stewart
• Anne Baxter - Jean Hewlett
• Dana Andrews - Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors
• James Gleason - McDonnell
• Dame May Whitty - Grandmother

Henry Morgan - Brownie; Ben Carter - Oliver Cromwell Jones; Charles Tannen - Hammond; Frank Conroy - Capt. Bryson; John Archer - Curly; George Holmes - Crew Member; Minor Watson - (Adm. Bob Stewart); Kathleen Howard - Miss Bromley; David Bacon - Lieutenant; Stanley Andrews - Captain; Paul E. Burns - Clerk; Gene Rizzi - Seaman Rizzi; Frank Dawson - Henry the Butler; Chester Gan - Lee Wong; Charles Grapewin; Thurston Hall - Senator from Texas; Florence Lake - Doris; Trudy Marshall - Telephone Operator; Leila McIntyre - Senator's Wife; Edward McWade - Crony; Lionel Royce - German U-Boat Commander; Cecil Weston - Woman; Bruce Wong - Waiter; Hans Moebus - German Officer

Credit

Richard Day - Art Director, Wiard Ihnen - Art Director, Earl Luick - Costume Designer, Archie Mayo - Director, Ray F. Curtiss - Editor, Walter Thompson - Editor, David Buttolph - Composer (Music Score), Emil Newman - Musical Direction/Supervision, Leon Shamroy - Cinematographer, Leon Shanny - Cinematographer, Milton Sperling - Producer, Paul S. Fox - Set Designer, Thomas K. Little - Set Designer, Fred Sersen - Set Designer, Fred Sersen - Special Effects, W.R. Burnett - Screenwriter, Jo Swerling - Screenwriter

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To undergo a crash dive.

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n. - katastrofedykning, styrtdyk

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v. intr. - plonger raide
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n. - inmersión urgente de un submarino

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