Submarine Patrol

1938 film by John Ford

November 25, 1938 (1938-11-25)

Running time

95 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudgetover $1 million^[1]

Submarine Patrol is a 1938 film directed by John Ford. The screenplay was by Rian James, Darrell Ware, and Jack Yellen. The film starred Richard Greene, Nancy Kelly and Preston Foster. The supporting cast features George Bancroft, Elisha Cook, Jr., John Carradine, Maxie Rosenbloom, Jack Pennick, Ward Bond^[2] and an unbilled Lon Chaney Jr. as a Marine sentry. The movie was partly written by William Faulkner.^[3]

The film was based on the book The Splinter Fleet of the Otranto Barrage by Ray Millholland.^[4]

Plot

Cast

Richard Greene as Perry Townsend III
Nancy Kelly as Susan Leeds
Preston Foster as John C. Drake
George Bancroft as Captain Leeds
Slim Summerville as Spuds Fickett
J. Farrell MacDonald as Sails Quincannon
Warren Hymer as Rocky Haggerty
Douglas Fowley as Pinky Brett
Dick Hogan as Johnny Miller
Elisha Cook Jr. as Rutherford Davis Pratt ("The Professor")
Ward Bond as Seaman Olaf Swanson
George E. Stone as Irving Goldfarb
Jack Pennick as Guns McPeek
"Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom as Marine sentry Sgt. Joe Duffy
John Carradine as McAllison
Henry Armetta as Luigi
Joan Valerie as Anne
Robert Lowery as Sparks, radioman
Lon Chaney Jr. as Marine sentry (unbilled)

References

^ "Top Films and Stars". Variety. 4 January 1939. p. 10. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
^ "THE SCREEN; ' Submarine Patrol,' an Exciting and Richly Comic Saga of the Splinter Fleet, Opens at the Roxy At the 86th St. Garden Theatre At the 86th Street Casino At the Modern Playhouse". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-03-14.
^ "Submarine Patrol". www.tcm.com. Retrieved 2024-03-14.
^ "Submarine Patrol". www.tcm.com. Retrieved 2024-03-14.

External links

Submarine Patrol at IMDb
Submarine Patrol film clip on YouTube

Films by John Ford

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