***SPOILERS*** On Christmas Eve 1941 some two weeks after the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor the US attack submarine Copperfin slips out of San Francisco Bay on a secret mission that even it's office in charge Capt.Cassidy, Cary Grant, has no idea what it is. 24 hours out at sea Capt. Cassidy opens up, as he was ordered to before he took off,the safe in his cabin where there's a letter of instructions to where he and the crew of the Coppenfin are headed for; Destinaion Tokyo.
Highly charged war action/drama with Capt. Cassidy, who despite being a native of Oklahoma City sounds as if he's from Birmingham England, and his all American crew consisting of the womanizing, mostly in his mind, and wise cracking Wolfie, John Garfield, who found out after his tour at sea that the sub Copperfin was the best girl that he ever had a date with. There's Tin Can, Dane Clark, a sarcastic and disillusioned young sailor who doesn't believe in a heaven life after death or a higher power but becomes religious after his experience, or spiritual awakening, in surviving the hell on earth that was Tokyo Bay.
Together with the rest of the sub's crew that includes "Cookie" (Alan Hale) the sub's cook, I guess that why he's called "COOKie", and young Tommy Adams, Robert Hutton, out on his first tour of sea duty and the on boat "doctor" Pill, William Prince, who doubles as the ships pharmacist, or is it the other way around. The Copperfin travels to the icy waters of the North Pacific off the Aleutians Islands in order to pick up Reserve Officer Raymond, Jon Ridgely,who grew up in Japan and is needed to get, and broadcast back to the US carrier Hornet, all the vital information about the Japanese defenses and the changing weather conditions in and around Tokyo Bay in Japanese. This is to be done so that the Japs wouldn't get suspicious, for the planned moral boosting Jimmy Dolittle raid on Tokyo.
Very tense and exciting war movie with the Copperfin under strict orders to avoid any action, and maintain strict radio silence with the US fleet, in order not to expose the mission that she's on. The she sub both cautious and skillfully, due to Capt. Cassidy's and the sub's crew expert handling slips past the Japanese Navy, as well as an impregnable submarine net, by shadowing, underwater a Japanese heavy cruiser and it's destroyer escort into the heavily defended Tokyo Harbor.
In conjunction with the US bomber attack on the city the Copperfin again shadowing a number of Japanese war ships quietly sails out of Tokyo Bay as the action there get hot and heavy. The Copperfin then runs into a large Jap naval task force slated to engage the US carrier group defending the USS aircraft carrier Hornet who's responsible for all the havoc caused in the Pearl of the Rising Sun, Tokyo.
Nerve-racking Japanese attack, with an almost inexhaustible supply of deadly depth charges, on the Copperfin after it deep-sixth a Jap flat-top (aircraft carries) thus exposing it's presence,and position. Capt. Cassidy throwing caution to the wind, after taking everything that the Japanese Navy could throw on his sub and crew, and submerging to battle or torpedo depths starts to slug it out toe to toe with the Japanese destroyer, who's been relentlessly depth-charging his sub, and finally puts it out of commission for good.
Highly charged war action/drama with Capt. Cassidy, who despite being a native of Oklahoma City sounds as if he's from Birmingham England, and his all American crew consisting of the womanizing, mostly in his mind, and wise cracking Wolfie, John Garfield, who found out after his tour at sea that the sub Copperfin was the best girl that he ever had a date with. There's Tin Can, Dane Clark, a sarcastic and disillusioned young sailor who doesn't believe in a heaven life after death or a higher power but becomes religious after his experience, or spiritual awakening, in surviving the hell on earth that was Tokyo Bay.
Together with the rest of the sub's crew that includes "Cookie" (Alan Hale) the sub's cook, I guess that why he's called "COOKie", and young Tommy Adams, Robert Hutton, out on his first tour of sea duty and the on boat "doctor" Pill, William Prince, who doubles as the ships pharmacist, or is it the other way around. The Copperfin travels to the icy waters of the North Pacific off the Aleutians Islands in order to pick up Reserve Officer Raymond, Jon Ridgely,who grew up in Japan and is needed to get, and broadcast back to the US carrier Hornet, all the vital information about the Japanese defenses and the changing weather conditions in and around Tokyo Bay in Japanese. This is to be done so that the Japs wouldn't get suspicious, for the planned moral boosting Jimmy Dolittle raid on Tokyo.
Very tense and exciting war movie with the Copperfin under strict orders to avoid any action, and maintain strict radio silence with the US fleet, in order not to expose the mission that she's on. The she sub both cautious and skillfully, due to Capt. Cassidy's and the sub's crew expert handling slips past the Japanese Navy, as well as an impregnable submarine net, by shadowing, underwater a Japanese heavy cruiser and it's destroyer escort into the heavily defended Tokyo Harbor.
In conjunction with the US bomber attack on the city the Copperfin again shadowing a number of Japanese war ships quietly sails out of Tokyo Bay as the action there get hot and heavy. The Copperfin then runs into a large Jap naval task force slated to engage the US carrier group defending the USS aircraft carrier Hornet who's responsible for all the havoc caused in the Pearl of the Rising Sun, Tokyo.
Nerve-racking Japanese attack, with an almost inexhaustible supply of deadly depth charges, on the Copperfin after it deep-sixth a Jap flat-top (aircraft carries) thus exposing it's presence,and position. Capt. Cassidy throwing caution to the wind, after taking everything that the Japanese Navy could throw on his sub and crew, and submerging to battle or torpedo depths starts to slug it out toe to toe with the Japanese destroyer, who's been relentlessly depth-charging his sub, and finally puts it out of commission for good.