The Enemy Below

The Enemy Below
Directed byDick Powell
Screenplay byWendell Mayes
Based onThe Enemy Below
by Denys Rayner
Produced byDick Powell
StarringRobert Mitchum
Curd Jürgens
CinematographyHarold Rosson
Edited byStuart Gilmore
Music byLeigh Harline
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • December 25, 1957 (1957-12-25) (New York City)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,910,000[1]

The Enemy Below is a 1957 American DeLuxe Color war film in CinemaScope about a battle between an American destroyer escort and a German U-boat during World War II. It stars Robert Mitchum and Curd Jürgens as the American and German commanding officers, respectively. Produced and directed by Dick Powell, the film was based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Denys Rayner, a British naval officer involved in antisubmarine warfare throughout the Battle of the Atlantic.

  1. ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p250

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