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This movie is a great example of a thriller, not looking to be a non-fiction account of a WWII sub, just a great story with a group of true professionals. Cary Grant was so compelling in this role that Tony Curtis said he based his famous part in Some Like It Hot on Cary Grant's performance in this picture, and that Curtis always wanted to do a movie with Grant on a submarine from that moment forward---and of course got his wish with Operation Petticoat. A previous reviewer slammed this movie for its anti-Japanese propaganda. Perhaps a slight bit of history would help. Statisitically, an American POW was FOUR times likely to die as a prisoner of the Japanese than of the Germans. The end of the war saved the lives of thousands of Americans because their treatment in Japanese camps was so horrifying. Six foot tall sailors weighing 100 pounds was not an uncommon site. The same Japanese military also starved its own people in places like Okinawa to feed itself, and I would hope that all people would now be familiar with the 'rape of Nanking,' so what was called propaganda was more just the way of the world at the time. This is one reason that the people who fought for America during World War II are revered and treasured so much.

OK..Ocean's 11, the original, was not citizen Kane, but at least it had charm and the natural ability of the rat pack could not be totally contained regardless of the weakness of the endeavor. This movie, perhaps as much as any, vividly shows why Turner Classic Movies has such good ratings, and why so few of today's actors and actresses come even close to measuring up to their predecessors. Evidently someone has come up to the conclusion that if a few good looking, well primped up people are gathered together, and place them in the ultimate cool setting of Las Vegas Boulevard, they would somehow radiate and attract the audience's undivided attention. Whoever thought that was wrong.

The criticisms of the reviewer who makes fun of this movie either is totally oblivious to what Germany was like, pre and post war, or does not want to admit that the movie was accurate. The Germans acted exactly as portrayed in the movie in the post-war era. No one knew anything, and no one saw anything. Millions disappeared, no one noticed. OK. That's believeable. Additionally, the interactions between the Americans and the Germans was perfectly depicted in the film, and as to Klemperer's character being a joke, it should be remembered that many Nazis acted exactly like that--totally defiant--during the trials. Meanwhile, to say that the Germans were not well defended by Schell's charater is totally wrong. Perhaps that is where this reviewer was wrong more than any area. Schell quotes Oliver Wendell Holmes and laws from the Commonwealth of Virginia to show that German laws portrayed as immoral were ones in force in America. Additionally, he quoted Churchill's positive statement about Hitler which was made before 1938. This movie is extraordinary. Tracy and Schell are beyond compare.