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The Atomic Submarine

193 statements
36 feature instances
7 referencing feature instances

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The Atomic Submarine	comment	In the near future the North Pole has become an undersea shipping lane for commercial atomic submarines, but something is sinking them. The US Navy dispatches their latest atom sub the Tigershark to find out who—or what—is doing this and stop them.Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, the movie was released on November 29, 1959. It stars Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey, Paul Dubov, Bob Steele, Victor Varconi, Joi Lansing, Selmer Jackson, and Jean Moorhead.
The Atomic Submarine	fetched	2023-08-31T10:28:58Z
The Atomic Submarine	parsed	2023-08-31T10:28:58Z
The Atomic Submarine	processingComment	Dropped link to Cyclops: Not a Feature - ITEM
The Atomic Submarine	processingComment	Dropped link to StarfishAlien: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
The Atomic Submarine	processingComment	Dropped link to TheNarrator: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
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The Atomic Submarine / int_1049848f	type	Aliens Speaking English
The Atomic Submarine / int_1049848f	comment	Aliens Speaking English: Done via telepathy. Holloway is even encouraged to stop talking and just 'think' what he wants to say at the alien.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_17a969de	type	No OSHA Compliance
The Atomic Submarine / int_17a969de	comment	No OSHA Compliance After docking with the alien spacecraft, the boarding party don't put on their scuba masks until after they open the hatch. If the seal hadn't been perfect between the two vessels, they'd have all drowned given the water pressure at that depth. Then after discovering there's a breathable atmosphere inside, they leave their scuba equipment behind even though their aim is to cut the Tigerfish loose which would cause the spaceship to flood. Holloway waves about his still-lit cutting torch while standing close to the person he's talking to. Decades before Star Wars, the alien ship has catwalks without safety railings.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_1a6960dd	type	Flying Saucer
The Atomic Submarine / int_1a6960dd	comment	Flying Saucer: Though in this case it's a USO (Unidentified Submerged Object) because they wouldn't have much of a plot if it wasn't underwater. It is however in the usual saucer shape and it tries flying off into space before our heroes shoot it down.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
The Atomic Submarine / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Seaman Carney and Powell, the two frogmen, are actually introduced this way by The Chief.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_1f9bddfb	type	Plug 'n' Play Technology
The Atomic Submarine / int_1f9bddfb	comment	Plug 'n' Play Technology: Having repaired itself, Cyclops will return to its planet and come back with an invasion force. Fortunately, the skipper has a couple of scientists on board who know how to combine a homing torpedo with an ICBM to make a water-to-air interceptor missile! And that's how SUBROC was invented, folks.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_20ab8163	type	Unnecessarily Large Vessel
The Atomic Submarine / int_20ab8163	comment	Unnecessarily Large Vessel: The Cyclops with its Crew of One dwarfs the Tigershark. It's Unnecessarily Large Interior has a genuinely spooky effect.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Atomic Submarine / int_3114c1e5	comment	Ramming Always Works: Not this time. When the atomic torpedoes fail to detonate the skipper orders the Tigershark to ram the USO because It's the Only Way to stop it (in fairness the sub appears to have a specially built prow for this trope). The USO appears to come off worse than the submarine, but the latter is jammed halfway inside and sinks to the bottom with it, forcing the skipper to send a Boarding Party on board to try and cut them loose.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_39303819	type	Zeerust
The Atomic Submarine / int_39303819	comment	Zee Rust: Instead of a SLBM being launched from vertical tubes inside the hull, the Tigershark pivots the missile (incorrectly called an ICBM) from a horizontal position until it's standing on top of the submarine, whereupon it fires. Atomic cargo and passenger submarines are in regular use just a few years after the then-present day. In real life they were never economical enough to be worth developing. Ironically only the Soviet Union gave it serious thought (as a means of bypassing their often ice-locked Northern harbors) but the Cold War ended before the plans got off the drawing board.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_3a90dc63	type	Aliens Are Bastards
The Atomic Submarine / int_3a90dc63	comment	Aliens Are Bastards: The alien sinks civilian ships and submarines for reasons it never explains. It does however announce its intention to kidnap humans and take them back to its planet for study, so the aliens can use that knowledge to modify themselves so they can colonize Earth.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_3ed8a8b9	type	I'm Melting!
The Atomic Submarine / int_3ed8a8b9	comment	I'm Melting!: A couple of Redshirts meet their end this way, either scorched by the USO's defense system or radiation from its drive powering up.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_45f52f5	type	Dynamic Akimbo
The Atomic Submarine / int_45f52f5	comment	Dynamic Akimbo: Commander Wendover when ordering they ram "our one-eyed friend."
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The Atomic Submarine / int_49de98db	type	Dilating Door
The Atomic Submarine / int_49de98db	comment	Dilating Door: A crewman gets crushed when his arm is caught as he tries to dive through the dilating door as it closes. So in this case it was a contracting door.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_51923571	type	Spinning Paper
The Atomic Submarine / int_51923571	comment	Spinning Paper: CLOSE ARCTIC SEALANE AFTER EPIC DISASTER!
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The Atomic Submarine / int_5874eb12	type	Organic Technology
The Atomic Submarine / int_5874eb12	comment	Organic Technology: Cyclops is a Living Ship and can repair itself even after being rammed, sealing up the hole to prevent the ship's atmosphere escaping. The aliens in turn can modify themselves to adapt to any environment and intend to do so to colonize Earth.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_5f014f7a	type	Sub Story
The Atomic Submarine / int_5f014f7a	comment	Sub Story: Despite having a spacecraft in it.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_616b5da3	type	Gelatinous Encasement
The Atomic Submarine / int_616b5da3	comment	Gelatinous Encasement: The Tigershark launches a couple of atomic torpedoes at Cyclops, but it produces some kind of gel that stops them dead in the water so they don't strike the hull and explode.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_7484b619	type	Herr Doktor
The Atomic Submarine / int_7484b619	comment	Herr Doktor: One of the scientists is played by a Hungarian actor to give him the requisite accent.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_7994c93a	type	Violence Really Is the Answer
The Atomic Submarine / int_7994c93a	comment	Violence Really Is the Answer: One of the scientists is a pacifist, but by the end of the movie he realises that nukes are the only way to deal with those Dirty Communists...erhmm with an alien spacecraft which will return with an invading force if it isn't blown out of the sky.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_816a4e80	type	Star Wars (Franchise)
The Atomic Submarine / int_816a4e80	comment	Decades before Star Wars, the alien ship has catwalks without safety railings.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_ad3a96f5	type	It's the Only Way
The Atomic Submarine / int_ad3a96f5	comment	It's the Only Way Regardless of the risk of sinking his own ship, Wendover orders the Tigerfish to ram the Cyclops as they're the most powerful vessel on Earth and if they can't stop it, nothing else can. The Narrator helpfully informs us that turning an ICBM into a guided missile is Crazy Enough to Work. "It was foolish...it was insane...it was fantastic. But it was their only hope. And the Earth's only hope."
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The Atomic Submarine / int_ae254ead	type	Narrating the Obvious
The Atomic Submarine / int_ae254ead	comment	Narrating the Obvious: The Narrator insists on saying what we can see The Captain is writing in his Captain's Log in a close-up shot, or restating what someone has just said they intend to do.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_b1bf431c	type	Go for the Eye
The Atomic Submarine / int_b1bf431c	comment	Go for the Eye: As per established procedure for dealing with a cyclops. The alien proves Immune to Bullets, killing the man who fires on it. Holloway then fires a Flare Gun into the alien's single eye, so it's temporarily Blinded by the Light, giving Holloway a chance to escape.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_b1dcd2ee	type	Flesh Versus Steel
The Atomic Submarine / int_b1dcd2ee	comment	Flesh Versus Steel: The alien with its Organic Technology versus the humans with their atomic submarine.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_b26cc887	type	Just Between You and Me
The Atomic Submarine / int_b26cc887	comment	Just Between You and Me: The alien is nice enough to explain the whole Evil Plan, instead of just luring Holloway into a trap and rendering him unconscious. Then again given that the alien is all alone on the spacecraft, it probably just wanted someone to talk to.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_bb01ad0e	type	Cool Boat
The Atomic Submarine / int_bb01ad0e	comment	Cool Boat: The "atom killer sub" Tigershark, which also carries a minisub called the Lungfish.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_c4b910bf	type	Slow Doors
The Atomic Submarine / int_c4b910bf	comment	Slow Doors: Zigzagged; Carney gets crushed when he tries to flee through the Dilating Door. Holloway is able to dive through just in time, though he nearly gets his foot caught. Nielsen is able to hold open the last door for him, even though it was strong enough to kill Carney.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
The Atomic Submarine / int_cdaa029f	comment	Nuclear Weapons Taboo: Nope, the captain has no problem authorizing the use of atomic torpedoes in international waters.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_d2810345	type	Boarding Party
The Atomic Submarine / int_d2810345	comment	Boarding Party: Who end up suffering the fate of all Red Shirts. At least Holloway has a reason to survive besides Plot Armor, as the alien intended to bring an unharmed 'specimen' back to his planet.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_dcaf20c4	type	Space Suits Are SCUBA Gear
The Atomic Submarine / int_dcaf20c4	comment	Space Suits Are SCUBA Gear: Justified as it is scuba gear, worn by the boarding party onto the spacecraft in case there's no atmosphere.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_e5af61ec	type	HotTopicPhlebotinum
The Atomic Submarine / int_e5af61ec	comment	Hot Topic Phlebotinum: The world's first nuclear-powered submarine USS Nautilus had achieved the first underwater transit of the North Pole the year before.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_ece6f910	type	Moment Killer
The Atomic Submarine / int_ece6f910	comment	Moment Killer: Holloway is smooching with a hot blonde when someone slips a letter under his door, with orders for him to report to the Tigershark.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_f32d85ab	type	20 Minutes into the Future
The Atomic Submarine / int_f32d85ab	comment	20 Minutes into the Future: According to The Narrator by the late 50's/early 60's the North Pole is routinely used as an undersea highway by cargo-carrying submarines and underwater passenger liners.
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The Atomic Submarine / int_f51f4509	type	Tagline
The Atomic Submarine / int_f51f4509	comment	Tagline: "Our fleet of atomic submarines has disappeared!".
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The Atomic Submarine / int_fa7c3288	type	Humans Are Ugly
The Atomic Submarine / int_fa7c3288	comment	Humans Are Ugly
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The Atomic Submarine / int_fc9c6b00	type	Pacifism Is Cowardice
The Atomic Submarine / int_fc9c6b00	comment	Pacifism Is Cowardice: Dr. Nielsen insists on piloting the Lungfish to dock with the alien spacecraft, and when Holloway gets in his face says he's not a coward no matter what Holloway thinks of his political beliefs.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

The Atomic Submarine	hasFeature	Alien Works / int_d3893e60
The Atomic Submarine	hasFeature	B-Movie / int_d3893e60
The Atomic Submarine	hasFeature	Dilating Door / int_d3893e60
The Atomic Submarine	hasFeature	Flare Gun / int_d3893e60
The Atomic Submarine	hasFeature	He Didn't Make It / int_d3893e60
The Atomic Submarine	hasFeature	Slow Doors / int_d3893e60
The Atomic Submarine	hasFeature	Sub Story / int_d3893e60

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