The Enemy Below

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Enemy Below, 1957.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Enemy Below, 1957.

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces The Enemy Below, 1957.

Intensely technical from producer-director Dick Powell, the U-Boat captain (Curt Jurgens), whom we know to be highly disaffected, takes the bait from U.S. destroyer captain Murrell (Robert Mitchum), who impresses his crew and orders the chase, in The Enemy Below, 1957.

On his first night in command of his new ship in the South Atlantic during WWII, Captain Murrell (Robert Mitchum) explains his instinct for tracking what we know really is a U-Boat, and his own back-story, to sympathetic "Doc," (Russell Collins) in The Enemy Below, 1957.

Producer-director Dick Powell exploits the cooperation of the U.S. Navy, the fictional destroyer U.S.S. Haynes in the South Atlantic, Ware (Al Hedison) at the con as the new captain (Robert Mitchum), rumored to have been seasick since he boarded, takes command, in The Enemy Below, 1957.

Even before we get to know Robert Mitchum, captain of the pursuing American ship, an intense speech from German (English-speaking, for the movie) U-Boat commander Von Stolberg (Curt Jurgens), Wendell Mayes' script from Cmdr. D.A. Rayner's novel, in The Enemy Below, 1957.