Submarine Base

Submarine Base is a 1943 American war film directed by Albert H. Kelley for Producers Releasing Corporation. The working title was Raiders of the Pacific. Plot Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats. Cast John Litel as James Xavier "Jim" Taggart Alan Baxter as Joe Morgan Eric Blore as Spike, Morgan's aide Georges Metaxa as Nazi Agent Anton Kroll George Flaherty as David Cavanaugh Rafael Storm as Felipo Fifi D'Orsay as Maria Styx Iris Adrian as Dorothy Jacqueline Dalya as Judy Pierson Anna Demetrio as Angela Styx Luis Alberni as Mr. Styx Lucien Prival as German Submarine Captain Mueller References