We Dive at Dawn (1943)

Director

• Anthony Asquith

Starring

• Eric Portman
• John Mills
• Reginald Purdell
• Niall MacGinnis
• Joan Hopkins

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Synopsis

This tense, no-frills British study of submarine warfare is packed with incident and period detail. Director Anthony Asquith sets the scene and establishes the characters during seven days' shore leave, before the crew members of the Sea Tiger embark on a dangerous mission to sink a Nazi battleship in the Baltic. John Mills invests his commanding officer with quiet dignity, leaving Eric Portman with the showier role as the German-speaking seaman who must try to save the day when the submarine runs out of fuel. But the movie really benefits from the little-known British character actors down the cast, whose portrayal of quiet heroism seems very credible indeed.