Movie: Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Tagline: Warner Bros. thunderous story of the men of the merchant marine!
Trivia: Very few early World War II films featured an American soldier who was an African-American. Humphrey Bogart, this movie's leading star, was once quoted in The Pittsburgh Courier on 26 September 1942 as saying that he wanted to have a black Merchant Marine captain in this movie. He said: "In the world of the theatre or any other phase of American life, the color of a man's skin should have nothing to do with his rights in a land built upon the self-evident fact that all men are created equal."
Goofs: Factual errors: Most of the miniature shots of the German U boats are, in reality models of American Gato class fleet boats and bear almost no similarity to a U boat - other than the fact they're both submarines.
"Lieutenant Joe Rossi is 1st Officer on a Liberty Ship in a great convoy bound from Halifax to Murmansk. After German subs crushed the convoy his ship loses the convoy and is heading alone to Murmansk. In spite of attacks by German planes and subs he get the ship safely to Murmansk... Written by Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>"
