Up Periscope

1959 PG-13 1h 52m

6.4 / 10 34

RATING

6.4/10

YOUR RATING

Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.

Director Gordon Douglas

Writers

Robb White Richard H. Landau

Stars

James Garner Edmond O'Brien Andra Martin

James Garner

Lt. J. G. Kenneth M. Braden

Edmond O'Brien

Commander Paul Stevenson

Chief Petty Officer York

Warren Oates

Seaman Kovacs

Clifford Kawada

Japanese (uncredited)

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User Reviews 2

Geronimo1967 12 Aug 2023

6/10

As a kid, I always loved submarine films. As a weapon of war, they aways provided a great vehicle for an adventure - great atmosphere, murky depths and torpedos that seemed very rarely to hit what they were aimed at! Best of all, though, there was positively no room at sea, on the boat, for any slushy romance!! This film opens with James Garner ("Braden") doing his best impression of the beach sce...

John Chard 2 Mar 2015

6/10

Up Periscope and Down Tools. Tricky. It's a decent film, lovely to look at with its scope photography and technicolor palettes, James Garner and Edmond O'Brien are holding court in the acting stakes, and of course this being a submarine war film it has the requisite claustrophobic feel. Yet it never really gels as a whole, submerging too far into the mundane to play out a whole bunch of sequenc...