Producer-director Dick Powell’s great 1957 World War Two watery action adventure epic drama follows the story of an American destroyer and a German U-boat chasing each other around the South Atlantic. Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens [Curd Jürgens] are stalwart as the respective captains, Captain Murrell of the USS Haynes and German commander Von Stolberg. This suspenseful movie concentrates on the emotions and trials of the two men and their duel of wits in contrast to the simple boom-boom gunfire attacks of other naval dramas of the era. — Derek Winnert