Submarine Command 05/14/24

This little-seen Paramount war picture finishes William Holden’s run with lovely Nancy Olson as his co-star; John Farrow’s direction brings out the script’s ‘between the wars’ troubles of servicemen, and then settles for the expected recruiting stance for the then-hot Korean War. It’s filmed partly at sea, which adds to the realism, and it tries to keep the heroics under control. Don Taylor is in the best-buddy role, as the Navy flier Holden rescues from the drink; William Bendix is a CPO with a grudge against Holden — for an incident that happened on the last day of WW2. On Blu-ray from KL Studio Classics.
05/14/24