Review – The Enemy Below

As macho, two-fisted tales of the sea go, this one’s not half bad. Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens star as the captains of an American destroyer and German U-boat squaring off in the South Atlantic. This is set apart from the usual war yarn in that the two skippers actually use tactics rather than sheer brute force in their attempts to defeat each other. The picture also includes elements such as the consequences of war and the notion that violence need not make inhuman monsters of combatants. Overall this is very much a post-World-War-Two version of World War Two, and much the better for its distance from the propaganda mills of the 1940s. Mildly amusing