Another war movie with an interesting plot that I recently viewed...
Prison Ship (1945).
Captured allied prisoners are locked up on a Japanese cargo ship - but they begin to suspect their captors are planning to use the ship as a decoy to goad American submarines to fire upon it, unknowingly killing the prisoners. Can the prisoners plan an escape and overthrow their Axis captors in time to save themselves?
I loved the plot - it's a prison movie, it's a war movie, it's a ship at sea movie, it's a rebellion & revenge movie, it's a diverse cast of international characters thrown together in a survival situation movie (ala an Irwin Allen disaster film), etc.
For all that... it could have been better if it was longer & had better production values (so great candidate for a major motion picture remake). Still, it was exciting enough for a war movie with a less-than-an-hour runtime!
My favorite bit of trivia for this one is it starred Robert Lowery (who played BATMAN in the 1949 movie serials: Batman and Robin)!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038001...rison%2520ship
Prison Ship (1945).
Captured allied prisoners are locked up on a Japanese cargo ship - but they begin to suspect their captors are planning to use the ship as a decoy to goad American submarines to fire upon it, unknowingly killing the prisoners. Can the prisoners plan an escape and overthrow their Axis captors in time to save themselves?
I loved the plot - it's a prison movie, it's a war movie, it's a ship at sea movie, it's a rebellion & revenge movie, it's a diverse cast of international characters thrown together in a survival situation movie (ala an Irwin Allen disaster film), etc.
For all that... it could have been better if it was longer & had better production values (so great candidate for a major motion picture remake). Still, it was exciting enough for a war movie with a less-than-an-hour runtime!
My favorite bit of trivia for this one is it starred Robert Lowery (who played BATMAN in the 1949 movie serials: Batman and Robin)!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038001...rison%2520ship