Up Periscope
  • Title: Up Periscope
  • Original Title: Up Periscope
  • Release Date: 04/03/1959
  • Tagline: The man they called the 'human torpedo' - the secret underwater marauder who hit like no man hit before!
  • Duration:112 Min / 01:52
  • Country:US
  • Genre:WarAdventureAction

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Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.

Movie Rating: 6.3

Total Votes: 32

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John Chard
John Chard
6/10
Up Periscope and Down Tools. Tricky. It's a decent film, lovely to look at with its scope photography and technicolor palettes, James Garner and Edmond O'Brien are holding court in the acting stakes, and of course this being a submarine war film it has the requisite claustrophobic feel. Yet it never really gels as a whole, submerging too far...
Geronimo1967
Geronimo1967
6/10
As a kid, I always loved submarine films. As a weapon of war, they aways provided a great vehicle for an adventure - great atmosphere, murky depths and torpedos that seemed very rarely to hit what they were aimed at! Best of all, though, there was positively no room at sea, on the boat, for any slushy romance!! This film opens with James Garner...