Summary
Submarine Patrol is an American adventure film first released in 1938,
directed by John Ford.
The film is based on a novel by Ray Millholland and stars Richard Greene, Nancy Kelly, Preston Foster John C. Drake, George Bancroft and Slim Summerville.
It has also been released under the title: The Splinter Fleet.
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Credits
- Director: John Ford
- Script: Don Ettlinger, William Faulkner, Sheridan Gibney, Rian James, Gene Markey, Ray Millholland (novel), Lt.Cdr. George O. Noville, Kathryn Scola, Karl Tunberg, Darrell Ware, Jack Yellen
- Photo: Arthur C. Miller
- Music: Arthur Lange, Charles Maxwell
- Cast: Richard Greene (Perry Townsend III), Nancy Kelly (Susan Leeds), Preston Foster (Lt. (j.g.) John C. Drake), George Bancroft (Capt. Leeds), Slim Summerville (Ellsworth ’Spuds’ Fickett, cook), J. Farrell MacDonald (CWO ’Sails’ Quincannon), Warren Hymer (Seaman Rocky Haggerty), Douglas Fowley (Seaman Pinky Brett), Dick Hogan (Seaman Johnny Miller), Elisha Cook Jr. (Seaman Rutherford Davis Pratt, aka ’The Professor’), George E. Stone (Seaman Irving Goldfarb), Jack Pennick (Bos’un ’Guns’ McPeek), John Carradine (McAllison), Henry Armetta (Luigi), Joan Valerie (Anne), Max ’Slapsie Maxie’ Rosenbloom (Marine Sentry Sgt. Joe Duffy), Charles Trowbridge (RAdm. Joseph Maitland), Moroni Olsen (The Fleet Captain), Ward Bond (Seaman Olaf Swanson), Robert Lowery (Sparks, radioman), Harry Strang (Seaman Grainger), Victor Varconi (Italian Naval Chaplain Vanzano), Ernie Alexander (Warship Sailor), Murray Alper (Orderly in Maitland’s Office), Lon Chaney Jr. (Marine Sentry), Dorothy Christy (McPeek’s Girl), Ray Cooke (Warship Sailor), Alan Davis (Maitland’s Secretary-Lieutenant), Duke Green (Warship Sailor), Fred Malatesta (Italian Gendarme at the ’Maria Ann’), Frank Moran (Waiter at Dive), Manuel París (Italian Gendarme at the ’Maria Ann’), Ferdinand Schumann-Heink (German Officer), Dick Wessel (Dock Shore Patrolman (facing camera))
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- Runtime: 95 min; B&W
- Aka: The Splinter Fleet
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