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The Phantom Submarine

The Phantom Submarine

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 20, 1940

Runtime

1h 10m

Genres

Adventure, Romance

User Score

60%

Original Title

The Phantom Submarine

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

Director

Charles Barton

Description

On the night before he sails in search of the steamship Arcadia's sunken gold, Paul Sinclair (Bruce Bennett)meets Madeliene Nielson (Anita Louise) in a San Francisco nightclub. On the second day at sea, Madeliene turns up as a stowaway. While diving and searching for the sunken gold, off the Phillipines, Paul discovers that a foreign-country submarine has been laying mines in order to completely cut off the Phillipines from American protection.