Review – Action in the North Atlantic

Here’s a rarity: a World War Two era propaganda picture extolling the virtues of something besides the armed forces. Our heroes here are members of the Merchant Marine, valiantly sailing their Liberty Ship into the deadly hunting ground of Hitler’s U-boat wolfpacks and Luftwaffe in order to bring badly-needed supplies to Russia. Despite the tendency toward cliché anti-Nazi sermonizing, the script is reasonably good, and the cast – helmed by Humphrey Bogart – does a reasonably good job with it. Mildly amusing.

Genre: Action

Subgenre: War
Date reviewed: 7/26/2009