Everything about this movie is poor. Its plot construction destroys any attempt to portray this apparently true story realistically. This one is never suspenseful: you always know what's going to happen next. In fact. it's fairly boring because you know right from the beginning that two crew members are intent upon destroying the ship.
There is nothing exceptional in the acting: James Mason is always James Mason and Broderick Crawford is always Broderick Crawford. No one walks out of their skins and becomes another character.
Does this even qualify as a B movie? This is certainly worse than most others of this genre. Everything here is off-kilter and mismatched, and there seems to be no direction given, and no post-production afterthought to anything, leading one to think that the studio was just churning out potboilers for the cash -- and the quality of the film meant nothing.
This shows. The workmanship put into this film is meagre and it is a film that deserved a better fate. Worse than B movie fare, this feature provides only fractured glimpses of the real incident. A poorly conceived and poorly made film.
There is nothing exceptional in the acting: James Mason is always James Mason and Broderick Crawford is always Broderick Crawford. No one walks out of their skins and becomes another character.
Does this even qualify as a B movie? This is certainly worse than most others of this genre. Everything here is off-kilter and mismatched, and there seems to be no direction given, and no post-production afterthought to anything, leading one to think that the studio was just churning out potboilers for the cash -- and the quality of the film meant nothing.
This shows. The workmanship put into this film is meagre and it is a film that deserved a better fate. Worse than B movie fare, this feature provides only fractured glimpses of the real incident. A poorly conceived and poorly made film.