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Monday, April 13, 2026

Submarine Base (1943)

Director Albert H. Kelley
Rating Rating
MPAA PG
Run Time 65 min
Color Black and White
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Sound Mono (RCA Sound System)
Producer Jack Schwarz Productions
Country: USA
Genre: Drama
Plot Synopsis

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.

Tagline

I'm An Outcast!!! A Scoundrel To The End... But I'll Die A Hero's Death To Stop The Nazis!

This film's earliest documented telecasts took place in New York City Saturday 2 October 1948 on WATV (Channel 13), in Detroit Friday 7 January 1949 on WJBK (Channel 2), and in Los Angeles Tuesday 25 July 1950 on KTLA (Channel 5).

Joe tells Dorothy that she could "headline at Minsky's." Minsky's was a burlesque theatre in New York, run by the four Minsky brothers from 1912 to 1937.

Character error

Taggart claimed he was not accepted in the US military. As a police detective lieutenant, he was eminently qualified to be a member of the US Army's Counterintelligence Corps and Criminal Investigation Division.