SUBMARINE HEROES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21076, 9 January 1932, Page 9 (Supplement)

SUBMARINE HEROES.

" MEN LIKE THESE." FINE BRITISH NAVAL FILM. A great film epic of British naval heroism has been made in England and has attracted the favourable comment of the critics. " Men Like These, a title chosen by the critics at a private sho\v of this impressive picture of the dangers men face in submarines, was evidently inspired by the loss of the Poseidon, bat in no way does it pretend to be a reconstruction of that tragedy. It shows us just what happens when a submarine is rammed by a steamer. Six officials of the Admiralty to whom the film has been shown have expressed enthusiastic approval of it. The Admiralty, throughout the making of the film, gave the director, Walter Summers, every assistance and lent Captain Bruce as naval adviser. The rising of the water after the vessel is struck, and the heroic waiting of the men until it reaches a level which will compress the air sufficiently to make it possible to open the hatch, seem so real that there is no suggestion that it took place within an immense glass tank. The men, some of them old sailors, make their escape by means of the Davis equipments, and you see them gradually rising to the surface, where they are picked up by naval boats. Some people may think this picture of submarine tragedy is too harrowing, but it is savßd by the direction which brings out the courage apd discipline of the Navy. This was largely due to the superb acting of Sydney Seaward, as the chief petty officer in command.