KING'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 132, 7 June 1939, Page 5

KING'S THEATRE.

"Submarine Patrol."

j Twentieth Century-Fox's "Submarine j Patrol" opens on Friday at the King's Theatre. Here is an amazing drama of the strangest, most ill-assorted crew that ever manned a fighting ship—the civilian odds* and ends aboard one of the navy's flimsy cockleshells of the '■Splinter Fleet." The film is amazing both for the tale it tells and the fact that it has never been told before. The awe-inspiring glory that attends the big super-dreadnoughts and the fast, sleek destroyers and cruisers has all but obscured that branch of the service that saw some of the most perilous and exciting action of the war. The men who joined the "Splinter Fleet" were not fighters by any means. They were land-loving softies—butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers who were looking for a soft berth and found time to conduct their businesses on the side as their ships lay moored in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. How they were plunged headlong into the thick of it, crossing seas raging with wind and wave and shot and shell, and were taught by danger to stand and deliver—to become heroes—is the thrilling, dramatic theme of "Submarine Patrol." The film opens with a gay note, the lackadaisical, undisciplined men providing some of the rarest comedy the screen can boast. Richard Greene, •as rich young Perry Townsend 111, signs up for the fleet and meets, on the way, beautiful Nancy Kelly, a most promising newcomer for whom a most brilliant future is predicted. Their brave romance is as powerful as the dramatic theme of the film. Then there are the boys—Slim Summerville, Warren Hymerl Douglas Fowley, J. Farrell MacDonald, and Maxie Rosenbloom. a