U-BOAT PRISONER (1944)

Starring Bruce Bennett, Erik Rolf, John Abbott, John Wengraf, Robert
Williams
Directed by Lew Landers, Budd Boetticher

Print: black/white
Runtime: 66 min.
Genre: drama

All-purpose Columbia contractee Bruce Bennett (formerly college athlete
Herman Brix) was awarded a leading role in the wartime "B" U-Boat
Prisoner. Bennett plays merchant seaman Archie Gibbs, who manages to
survive when his ship is torpedoed by a German submarine. Disguising
himself in the uniform of a dead Nazi spy, Gibbs is picked up by the Nazi
U-boat. He manages to convince the German sailors that he's the spy, and
in this guise he tries to rescue a group of captured Allied scientists.
Already unbelievable, U-Boat Prisoner journeys into the Twilight Zone
during the climax, with Gibbs single-handedly incapacitating the
submarine crew and rescuing the prisoners. Incredibly, the film was
based on a true story, written by the real-life Archie Gibbs!

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