RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] "The Enemy Below"

["Joseph Perkel" <joeperkel@hotmail.com>]

Never noticed the hatch detail but, one of the finest war boat movies ever 
made, second only to Das Boot.

"The Enemy Below" (1957), Robert Mitchum, (Capt. Murell)

This film may have been inspired by a USCG action against the U-550 in 1944

http://www.uscg.mil/HQ/G-CP/HISTORY/U550.html

Joe


> From: "Brian Cox" <OjaiValleyBeeFarm@dslextreme.com>
> Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> To: <Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org>
> Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] "The Enemy Below"
> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 19:12:53 -0800
>
> If anyone has the movie " The Enemy Below"  check out the hatch on the
> German U-Boat just after Scauffer yells "alarm" and they pull the plug
> to submerge from the on coming destroyer (the Haynes).  Just as Scauffer
> is closing the hatch if you do a freeze frame on that view of the hatch
> it has a very interesting mechanisim on it,  which makes me think that
> it is a real sub hatch.  Whether or not it is a German hatch I have no
> idea.  But the hatch has a ratchet cylinder with a cable attached which
> looks like it is made to keep the hatch in an open position while it is
> upright.  It may also have a spring mechanisim which helps balance the
> heavy weight whin opening.  Has anybody noticed that?
>
> Brian ( has watched to many sub movies) Cox





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