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Submarine Base Reviews

  • 1943
  • 1 hr 5 mins
  • Drama
  • NR
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Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island.

A former gangster redeems himself by helping to defeat the Nazis on a remote island. Litel plays a criminal hiding out on the island who at first seems to aid the Nazis by giving them a place to refuel their submarines. When a ship is sunk, Baxter washes up on shore. A former New York City policeman, now in the merchant marines, he recognizes Litel as a gangster on the run, and tension soon builds between the two. By the end Litel is working against the Nazis, but when they find out, he is shot.