The Enemy Below

[Subdeacon Joe]

Excellent movie. 

 

https://youtu.be/ny6oZED1Hm8?si=ltSmm4FRxHylgYig

 

 

[Redleg Reilly, SASS #46372]

Definitely. 

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

Ms Helen Brimstone, Half-Breed Pete, and I just watched it two days ago!  

 

Pete and I tended to be a mite critical of "techincal issues" at times... but all in all, definitely a good film - from back in the day when they really used film!  😊

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Haven't seen it in awhile.  I'll see if my library has a DVD and check it out.  This evening I'll be watching The Ghost Army and tomorrow is Voyage To The Bottom of The Sea, Second Season.

Edited November 27, 2025 by Forty Rod SASS 3935

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

A bit of trivia:  "The Enemy Below" was the inspiration for the Star Trek episode "Balance of Terror" (season 1, episode 14). 

 

A tense, psychological 'cat-and-mouse' battle between the Enterprise and a Romulan 'Bird of Prey.'  Kirk, in the Robert Mitchum role, and the Romulan captain in the Curd Jurgens part, develop a grudging respect for each other. 

 

A fairly decent parallel story.    

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

A tense, psychological 'cat-and-mouse' battle between the Enterprise and a Romulan 'Bird of Prey.'  Kirk, in the Robert Mitchum role, and the Romulan captain in the Curd Jurgens part, develop a grudging respect for each other. 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curd_Jürgens

 

Jürgens was critical of Nazism in his native Germany. In 1944, after filming Wiener Mädeln, he got into an argument with Robert Kaltenbrunner (brother of high-ranking Austrian SS official Ernst Kaltenbrunner), SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny and a member of Baldur von Schirach's staff in a Viennese bar without knowing who they were. After this event, Jürgens was sent to a labor camp for the "politically unreliable" in Hungary. After a few weeks he managed to escape and went into hiding.^[2][5][6][7] Jürgens became an Austrian citizen after the war.