submarine movie cliche

[Rob Babcock]

Originally Posted by Drybasement

I don't know the first movie to do that but I can name one that did....U571

And Das Boot perhaps.

They didn't do that in Das Boot.

[kcollins4]

Originally Posted by donoghue

Well more cliches

How about the depth gauge with the red line, captain we can't go THAT deep!!! And water starts to spray and they tighten bolts in desperation. There just has to be one bolt that will keep it together.

The guy that has to die or almost die swimming through flooded compartments to tighten a line or push a switch or whatever for the good of the crew.

Or it's a valve of somekind. You would think it would be part of "basic submarine depthcharge procedure" to close all those freakin' valves before the leaks start.

[mech986]

Originally Posted by soundmotor

Balance of Terror, one of my favorite ST episodes.

Originally Posted by jeffw
That was used in one of the original Star Trek episodes too.
Against the Romulans.

Geeks of the world.....Unite!

Ummm, not quite. The Romulan Commander, played by Mark Lenard (before he was called back to be Spock's Father, Sarek), has to order the crew to include his friend, Centurion, who was killed by falling debris, with the rubble to jettison into space to try to fool Captain Kirk.

But agreed, one of the finest and noblest episodes of ST-TOS.

Regards,

Bart

[nukeme]

It's always nice to have a dead guy laying around on the sub just in case you need to "jettison" him.