Submarine Base (1943)

Title: Submarine Base

Original Title: Submarine Base

Release Date: 1943-07-20

Status: Released

Rating: 4.2/10 (from 4 votes)

Language: EN

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Production Companies: PRC, Jack Schwarz Productions

Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.