U-Boat Prisoner

Plot

All-purpose Columbia contractee Bruce Bennett (formerly college athlete Herman Brix) was awarded a leading role in the wartime "B" U-Boat Prisoner. Bennett plays merchant seaman Archie Gibbs, who manages to survive when his ship is torpedoed by a German submarine. Disguising himself in the uniform of a dead Nazi spy, Gibbs is picked up by the Nazi U-boat. He manages to convince the German sailors that he's the spy, and in this guise he tries to rescue a group of captured Allied scientists. Already unbelievable, U-Boat Prisoner journeys into the Twilight Zone during the climax, with Gibbs single-handedly incapacitating the submarine crew and rescuing the prisoners. Incredibly, the film was based on a true story, written by the real-life Archie Gibbs! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Cast

• Bruce Bennett - Archie Gibbs
• Erik Rolf - Kapitan Ganz
• John Abbott - Alfonse Lamont
• John Wengraf - Rudehoff

Kenneth MacDonald - Clyde Hamilton; Erwin Kalser - Biencawicz; Egon Brecher - Sigo van der Brek; Frederick Giermann - First Officer Kerck; Arno Frey - Hagemann; Sven Hugo Borg - Dorner; Nelson Leigh - Lt. Hagen; Trevor Bardette - Cmdr. Prentiss; Eric Feldary - Braustig; Fred Graham - Lt. Blake; Robert B. Williams - Cmdr. Bristol; Paul Conrad - Lt. Nolan

Credit

Lionel Banks - Art Director, Perry Smith - Art Director, Lew Landers - Director, Paul Borofsky - Editor, Burnett Guffey - Cinematographer, Wallace MacDonald - Producer, Robert Priestley - Set Designer, Malcolm Stuart Boylan - Screenwriter, Aubrey Wisberg - Screenwriter, Archie Gibbs - Short Story Author

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