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Released
1959 · FILM

Up Periscope

The man they called the 'human torpedo' - the secret underwater marauder who hit like no man hit before!

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Runtime
112 min
ActionDramaRomance

Synopsis

Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.

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Principal cast & crew: 16

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by John F SchreyerShot by Carl E Guthrie

Also known as

  • Geheimkommandode
  • Infierno bajo las aguases
  • La Mission secrète du sous-marin X-16fr
  • Quota periscopioit

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