About 40 minutes into the movie when the sub is about to leave dock for the first time and the witch doctor shows up Tony Curtis comes up deck with a suitcase and life preserver on but this is never addressed. Was he suppose to be getting off the sub cause he didn't trust it? Was it refered to at all and I missed it?
shareYou know... I don't believe they "did" say what was up there.
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I always took it as.....
He felt it would sink, and, he had his personal effects and his life jacket, just in case.
If you can read this....Thank a Teacher. Since it's in English.... Thank a Soldier.
I think it had something to do with creating an alibi that he was below deck during the preceding air raid instead of out looting the naval base with the Marine.
shareLook like that Lt.Holden was less than hopeful about the boat.
He had the feeling the Sea Tiger will break apart as they tried to move it, and he's ready with the lifejacket and valise, just in case.
The next morning he had breakfast in his quarter for the same reason, in his own words.
Lt.Holden: The scuttlebutt is that we're going to try to submerge at daybreak, and I figured if you've got to go, you might as well go big.
Excellent point. BTW: Another goof pointed out in the Goofs section on IMDB was that Holden told the Marine Sargent that the order for blackout came from Admiral Nimitz. Well Chet Nimitz was Chief of the Bureau of Navigation which was responsible for personell as well as charts and such. It is possible that he would issue an oder for blackout paint to be worn. So, not as far fetched as it was. Just maybe...
shareIt's not a goof. It's just a variation on an old joke. On the submarines I was on it was a tradition to show up for watch wearing life jackets for the first time a newly qualified Diving Officer of the Watch would be standing that watch. Probably what inspired this movie as much as anything else is that for all the extremely hard work, personal sacrifice, and even danger submariners undertake they have a tremendous sense of humor which takes the form largely of every kind of prank imaginable. (If you read about pranks on soundstages, etc., in Hollywood it can give you a pretty good idea. You could swear some of those guys must have been ex-submariners, or, at least, if they ever became submariners, they'd fit right in.) This is one of the milder ones.
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