U-Boat Prisoner (1944) DVD-R

Starring Bruce Bennett, Erik Rolf, John Abbott, John Wengraf, Robert Williams
Directed by Lew Landers, Budd Boetticher

Print: black/white
Runtime: 66 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

All-purpose Columbia contractee Bruce Bennett (formerly college athlete Herman Brix) was
awarded a leading role in the wartime "B" U-Boat Prisoner. Bennett plays merchant seaman
Archie Gibbs, who manages to survive when his ship is torpedoed by a German submarine.
Disguising himself in the uniform of a dead Nazi spy, Gibbs is picked up by the Nazi U-boat.
He manages to convince the German sailors that he's the spy, and in this guise he tries to
rescue a group of captured Allied scientists. Already unbelievable, U-Boat Prisoner journeys
into the Twilight Zone during the climax, with Gibbs single-handedly incapacitating the
submarine crew and rescuing the prisoners. Incredibly, the film was based on a true story,
written by the real-life Archie Gibbs!