Up Periscope

Director: Gordon Douglas Gordon Douglas

Overview

"Warner Home Video has released Gordon Douglas's Up Periscope as a DVD, with no special features except for the original trailer. The Warnerscope movie, however, is fully letterboxed (2.35-to-1) and does offer a clean, bright transfer, in rich color, with good, loud sound (the better to appreciate the action scenes when they start) as well. The 111 minute movie has also been encoded with a generous 28 chapters."

Product Details

Release Date:	12/19/2006
UPC:	0085391112082
Original Release:	1959
Rating:	NR
Source:	STUDIO DISTRIBUTION SERVS LLC
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Letterbox]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:51:00
Sales rank:	6,335

Special Features

Theatrical trailer; Languages: English & Français; Subtitles: English (feature film only)

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Edmond O'Brien	Commander Paul Stevenson
James Garner	Kenneth M. Braden
Andra Martin	Sally Johnson
Alan Hale	Lt. Pat Malone,Malone
Carleton Carpenter	Carney
Frank Gifford	Mount
William Leslie	Doherty
Richard Bakalyan	Peck
Edd Byrnes	Ash,Ash
Sean Garrison	Floyd
Henry Kulky	York
George Crise	Murphy
Warren Oates	Seaman Kovacs
Ray Heindorf	Composer

Technical Credits

Richard Landau

Gordon Douglas	Director
Aubrey Schenck	Producer
Aubrey Schenk	Producer
Richard Landau	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

Gordon Douglas's Up Periscope was made primarily as a vehicle for James Garner, a newly-minted television star (of Maverick), to see if he could draw audiences into theaters as well (he could). But as a World War II thriller, it was caught in between the gap between the modestly budgeted, intensely personal brand of war movie typical of the 1950's, and the bigger budgeted epics of the 1960's. It was made in color and shot in Warnerscope; and it has a very colorful (and fairly large) supporting cast -- including Alan Hale, Jr., Carlton Carpenter, Henry Kulky, and a young Warren Oates (stealing scenes in his first movie role) -- but its budgetary limitations are obvious as well. The latter include the Max Steiner title theme, which is recycled from two earlier Warner Bros. war movies; and the extended dialogue sequences that cover screen time that might, in a bigger budgeted movie, be filled with more expensive action scenes. The psychological conflict at the center, between the James Garner and Edmond O'Brien characters, seems to have come out of Robert Wise's Run Silent, Run Deep, which is a better movie, but as for the rest, it's fairly diverting, at least once, and this was the kind of war movie that baby-boomers loved to watch because it pretended to more than it actually delivered, in terms of depth. It's superficial but diverting fun, with a slightly greater humor content than was usual in a film like this.