NAVY PICTURE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 21

NAVY PICTURE.

Hollywood is always being twitted ■ C°n| t tant r chanSing title on picturcs after they have gone into production, but here is one change with which no critic can find fault. That ff the change from "Submarine 262" to Submarine D-l" on a thrilling romantic drama of the underseas service made by Warner Bros, at the San Diego Naval Base. The picture will be screening m New Zealand shortly The original title had no particular significance except that the "262" was used because there is no submarine so numbered. However, with pel-mission and full co-operation of the U.S. Navy an active and commissioned submarine was. used in the picture, and it is officially designated as the "D-l" with Supplementary name of "The DolP^ ln- -Since it would be contrary to all articles of war to permit even the temporary hanging of a sign, No. 262 on.one of Uncle Sam's under sea craft, it seemed much more simple, merely to change the title of the picture to fit the actual name of the submarine on which many scenes were filmed. Lloyd Bacon directed "Submarine"D-l," with a^ cast headed by Pat O'Brien, George Brent, Frank McHugh, poris Weston, Wayne Morris, Ronald Reagon, and Henry O'Neill.