Torpedo Run

Torpedo Run
Directed byJoseph Pevney
Written by
Screenplay byRichard Sale
Produced byEdmund Grainger
Starring
CinematographyGeorge J. Folsey
Edited byGene Ruggiero
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
  • October 23, 1958 (1958-10-23) (Premiere)
  • October 24, 1958 (1958-10-24)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.5 million[1]
Box office$2.6 million[1]

Torpedo Run is a 1958 American war film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Glenn Ford as a World War II submarine commander in the Pacific who is obsessed with sinking a particular Japanese aircraft carrier. The film's working title was Hell Below.[2] It was filmed in CinemaScope and Metrocolor.

A. Arnold Gillespie and Harold Humbrock were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.[3]

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ "AFI|Catalog Torpedo Run". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
  3. ^ "The 31st Academy Awards (1959) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 16, 2014.