i recommend that movie viewer if in the new york city area go to the intrepid museum and get some idea of how closed in and cramp the living be for the crew of world war ii vintage submarine . how much more so that must have be for the seaman during world war i. it must have truly be hell below . walter huston and robert montgomery head the cast of hell below and huston a the by the book captain and montgomery a his free wheel number two . theyre both quite believable a naval officer and the rest of the cast like robert young and eugene palette and jimmy durante and madge evans and sterling holloway and etc . fill their role quite nicely . the silent service get more popular during world war ii and after . it amazing and but i could name a whole slew of submarine picture like torpedo run and operation pacific and hellcat of the navy and run silent and run deep and many more and you will see the same plot situation in all of them . i guess there truly be a limit on situation a well . jimmy durante performance be interest . he pretty funny and his scene with the box kangaroo while on shore leave be very funny indeed . but i would have to say a character like him in those cramped quarter be probably very necessary for morale . if you do not have someone like that to break the tension on board a submarine and you ought to get one transfer to your ship immediately . the highlight for me however be sterling holloway death scene . very similar to sean mcclory in island in the sky . it will haunt you long after you have see this film .