Glenn Ford

Viveca Lindfors

Henry O'Neill

John Qualen

Carl Benton Reid

Joe Sawyer

Anthony Ross

Harry Shannon

Jerry Paris

John Hamilton

Kenneth Tobey

Paul Harvey

Hugh Beaumont

John Doucette

Ross Ford

Zachary Charles

John Baer

Robert Bice

Helen Brown

Harry Cheshire

Steven Clark

Joseph Crehan

John Dehner

William Donnelly

Paul Dubov

Charles Evans

Al Hill

Mary Alan Hokanson

Selmer Jackson

Anthony Jochim

Ed Kelly

Harry Lauter

Billy Lechner

Leon Lontoc

Robert Lowell

Paul Marion

Forbes Murray

William Phillips

Richard Quine

Grandon Rhodes

James Seay

Helen Spring

William Tannen

Peter M. Thompson

Harlan Warde

Carleton Young

Henry Levin

William E. Snyder

Richard English

N. Richard Nash

James Gunn

Jerry Bresler

Harvey S. Haislip

Viola Lawrence

Louis Diage

George Duning

George Brooks

Jean Louis

Morris Stoloff

Paul Donnelly

George Cooper

Drama

The Flying Missile

Columbia Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

I don't know about you, but I always found Glenn Ford a rather dull actor to watch. He wasn't bad, just unremarkable - and this maritime adventure sort of confirms that. He is a determined (bolshy) US Naval Commander who is convinced of the merits of launching missiles from submarines - despite scepticism from the upper echelons - and so sets out to coax, cajole and bulldoze his theories through. Viveca Lindfors "Karin" provides the love interest, and indirectly some of the conflict as her father is a devout pacifist. The end result is never in jeopardy and to a certain extent the film smacks of willy-waving at the Soviets in the immediate (1950) aftermath of WWII - with scant regard to fact. I tend to like submarine adventure films (usually because they are exciting and there is normally an absence of slushy love scenes) but this doesn't really satisfy either of my criteria and so whilst it's not rotten, it's almost as bad - it's bland.

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