Naval Warfare Movies

Atlantic Convoy

Director: Lew Landers
Starring: Bruce Bennett, Virginia Field, John Beal, Clifford Severn

Published: 1942
Country: USA
Length: 66 min.
Keywords: WWII, Feature

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A weather operator (Beal) stationed in Iceland, under suspicion of being a spy because he always seems to know when a convoy will be attacked, attempts to prove his innocence by volunteering for a rescue mission. One of those rescued turns out to be a cabin boy from a German spy ship, disguised as a fishing boat, which has been providing the U-boats with shipping information. Accompanying the boy to the spy ship, Beal pretends to agree to aid the U-boat captain aboard the ship in sinking a munitions vessel. Instead, he reports the presence of the spy ship, thus dooming it to destruction and proving which side he's really on.


This is one of several wartime propaganda features pairing Lew Landers and Bruce Bennett.