THE ENEMY BELOW Robert Mitchum (1957 Color WW2 film)

It is some time in the middle of World War II. The American Buckley-class destroyer escort USS Haynes is on patrol in the South Atlantic. Lieutenant Commander Murrell, a former captain in the Merchant Marine and now an active-duty officer in the Naval Reserve, has recently taken command of the ship; he joined the Navy after his freighter was sunk by a German U-boat, and is still recovering from injuries incurred in the sinking of his previous Navy warship and 21 days marooned adrift afterwards. Before the U-boat is first spotted, one sailor questions the new captain’s fitness and ability. Once a skilled game of cat-and-mouse tracking the U-boat gives way to a series of even more finely honed and intuitive attacks, the crew falls in strongly behind their new skipper. He’s matching deadly wits with U-boat Kapitän zur See von Stolberg, a wily former World War I Unterseaboot skipper deep into a conflict he resents for a Nazi regime he detests. As the battle that emerges tests both comma