Submarine Patrol Explained

Submarine Patrol
Director:	John Ford
Producer:	Darryl F. Zanuck
Starring:	Richard Greene Nancy Kelly Preston Foster George Bancroft
Cinematography:	Arthur C. Miller
Editing:	Robert L. Simpson
Distributor:	20th Century Fox
Runtime:	95 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Budget:	over $1 million^[1]

Submarine Patrol is a 1938 film directed by John Ford. The screenplay was by Rian James, Darrell Ware, and Jack Yellen. The film starred Richard Greene, Nancy Kelly and Preston Foster. The supporting cast features George Bancroft, Elisha Cook, Jr., John Carradine, Maxie Rosenbloom, Jack Pennick, Ward Bond^[2] and an unbilled Lon Chaney Jr. as a Marine sentry. The movie was partly written by William Faulkner.^[3]

The film was based on the book The Splinter Fleet of the Otranto Barrage by Ray Millholland.^[4]

Cast

• Richard Greene as Perry Townsend III
• Nancy Kelly as Susan Leeds
• Preston Foster as John C. Drake
• George Bancroft as Captain Leeds
• Slim Summerville as Spuds Fickett
• J. Farrell MacDonald as Sails Quincannon
• Warren Hymer as Rocky Haggerty
• Douglas Fowley as Pinky Brett
• Dick Hogan as Johnny Miller
• Elisha Cook Jr. as Rutherford Davis Pratt ("The Professor")
• Ward Bond as Seaman Olaf Swanson
• George E. Stone as Irving Goldfarb
• Jack Pennick as Guns McPeek
• "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom as Marine sentry Sgt. Joe Duffy
• John Carradine as McAllison
• Henry Armetta as Luigi
• Joan Valerie as Anne
• Robert Lowery as Sparks, radioman
• Lon Chaney Jr. as Marine sentry (unbilled)

Notes and References

1. Top Films and Stars. Variety. 18 March 2023. 10. 4 January 1939.
2. News: THE SCREEN; ' Submarine Patrol,' an Exciting and Richly Comic Saga of the Splinter Fleet, Opens at the Roxy At the 86th St. Garden Theatre At the 86th Street Casino At the Modern Playhouse . 2024-03-14 . The New York Times . en.
3. Web site: Submarine Patrol . 2024-03-14 . www.tcm.com . en.
4. Web site: Submarine Patrol . 2024-03-14 . www.tcm.com . en.