Action in the North Atlantic (1943)

I was happy to discover the writing for this film earned an Oscar nod. It's well deserving.Brisk, exciting action explodes across the screen for the first 30 minutes before seguing into quieter character sketches on the primary actors for the World War II film highlighting the Merchant Marines' role in aiding convoy supply ships headed for Russia.Exremely well-written and edited to create a really great film and overview of the primary focus of the film, the Merchant Marines. I enjoyed the film's character sketches as well.Fantastically shot battle scenes between ships, submarines, and airplanes hurl the story to a patriotic, flag-waving conclusion and keep viewers glued to it to see what is next.The balance between battles, the human condition of the characters, and strategy are phenomenal. I would have liked to rate the film five stars, but became distracted by a great deal of film time focused on the German UBoats and planes, without any captioning. All of the German dialogue simply wasted the film timing & created a feeling of frustration just because SO MUCH time is given them. Had captioning been done, it would have served the story very well.Look for small bit parts played by familiar faces Dane Clark and Sam Levene, and the ever-gregarious Alan Hale just enough comic relief.

Great WW2 drama. The story of a the crew of a merchant ship, crossing the Atlantic during World War 2, the perils they face and how they cope with them.Gritty, with a real feel to it. Being made in 1943, it has a degree of propaganda and the inevitable speeches, but not to the extent of most other WW2 movies. This makes it much more watchable today than your average WW2 movie.Has a few historical inaccuracies, but they are not overly impactful on the feel of the movie.Solid performances from Humphrey Bogart (as you would expect), Raymond Massie and the supporting cast.

Action in the North Atlantic is an interesting film about the US merchant marine during World War II.It chronicles the adventures of a Liberty cargo ship delivering war supplies from the US to Murmansk in the Soviet Union while evading German U-boats. Humphrey Bogart plays the second in command on the ship, the rest of the cast is made up mainly of a few fellow officers and the crew who are there for some comic relief.The production values are pretty decent with some good model work and a full size mock up of a Liberty ship as the backdrop. The tension is constant as the men face an uncertain fate on their journey across the ocean.Given this was made in 1943, the film is packed full of patriotism and propaganda but it is simply a product of its times. An interesting watch.

"Action in the North Atlantic" (1943) directed by Lloyd Bacon is or still is an adventurer hymn of joy to those who traveled and entering the bay, evicting the blockade to the Murmansk port during WWII, which impeached promissory vessels with the food help and also other material coming to Russia, after the victory in Stalingrad ground against German army. It is somewhat oldest as style, with a touch of war propaganda, that annoys its interest now and fabricated behavior as movie, notwithstanding its good spirit as a fiction almost narrated partly as a documentary about if not with some lines between characters on the boat. The scenes of the maritime workers union are powerful, as influenced by social convictions that were considered before as subversives for the bosses, but is there where is discussed the problem of ship wrecking during this kind of trips over the seas. Namely concerning wreckage of vessels, as only attended by any kind of civil cargo in that path and, by consequence, the increasing of the tremendous death toll of crews in the recent past, it is the dramatic jump for another step in the fight against closed influence by the top hierarchical oppression of any structure. Meaning that, however, humble people of sailors are strength enough for changing plans from the previous catastrophe of such an isolationist mind and irresponsibleness of supreme fighters, whom previously not had heard with accuracy the experiment of the survivors. Preparing continually courage for the worst, next in the darkness of the maritime fog inside the cargo, across mining undersea shelling sometimes with such horror people. Or, in a given sequence, when a submarine was waiting for a little bit of noise at surface, inducing that nearby Allies were there for well done, escaping after a war of nerves and sacrifices. The scene with the Russians squadron of airplanes, welcoming the ship's convoy of maritime cargo, it is one of the most ironic and best conceived for the time, as opening the space for the good will of the goods. That survived the successive battles on the trip made almost in closed atmosphere, during the most part of the story of this movie, made too with the anxiety from the condensed way of acting. Why not understanding the limits of the way, that Lloyd Bacon composed with fast understatement such a victory of humanity ? When this movie is considered still now, as a piece of warrior's art since then, with such an enthusiasm from the icy harbor of Murmansk, from the entire population, as common interest from the then spelled Allies of fortune.