Submarine Raider
Submarine Raider is a 1942 American war film directed by Lew Landers and starring John Howard.[1]
| Submarine Raider | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Lew Landers |
| Produced by | Wallace MacDonald |
| Screenplay by | Aubrey Wisberg |
| Starring | John Howard Marguerite Chapman Bruce Bennett |
| Cinematography | Franz Planer |
| Edited by | William A. Lyon |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date | June 4, 1942 |
Running time | 65 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Production
Budd Boetticher was working as an assistant director at Columbia Pictures, notably to George Stevens on The More the Merrier. Harry Cohn took a liking to Boetticher and got him to direct the last two days of filming. Boetticher said it was a 12-day picture and recalled "my God, I studied! I prepared every angle, I went over the script line by line, I prepared for those two days as if I were directing Gone With the Wind, because I didn't have any talent for it."[2]
Boetticher called Landers "a no-talent guy. They called him the "D" director there at Columbia; he just wasn't any good. Whenever they had a picture they didn't really care about, they'd give it to Landers."[2] He later performed a similar task on U-Boat Prisoner (1944).