Richard Greene Nancy Kelly Preston Foster George Bancroft
Cinematography
Arthur C. Miller
Edited by
Robert L. Simpson
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release date
November 25, 1938 (1938-11-25)
Running time
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]
^"Top Films and Stars". Variety. 4 January 1939. p. 10. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
^"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". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-03-14.
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