Up Periscope

Up Periscope
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGordon Douglas
Screenplay byRichard H. Landau
Based onUp Periscope
1956 novel
by Robb White
Produced byAubrey Schenck
Howard W. Koch
Edwin F. Zabel
StarringJames Garner
Edmond O'Brien
Andra Martin
Alan Hale Jr.
Narrated byEdmond O'Brien
CinematographyCarl E. Guthrie
Edited byJohn F. Schreyer
Music byRay Heindorf
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • March 4, 1959 (1959-03-04)
Running time
112 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2 million[1]
Box office$1.5 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[2]

Up Periscope is a 1959 World War II submarine film drama directed by Gordon Douglas, produced by Aubrey Schenck and starring James Garner and Edmond O'Brien. The supporting cast features Andra Martin, Alan Hale Jr., Edd Byrnes, Warren Oates and Saundra Edwards. The film was shot and processed in WarnerScope and Technicolor and was distributed by Warner Bros. The screenplay was written by Richard H. Landau and Robb White, adapted from White's novel of the same name.

Garner called the film "another piece of crap that Warner Bros. stuck me in while I was under contract."[3]

  1. ^ "New York Soundtrack". Variety. March 26, 1958. p. 7. Retrieved October 10, 2021 – via Archive.org.
  2. ^ "1959: Probable Domestic Take". Variety. 6 January 1960. p. 34.
  3. ^ Garner, James; Winokur, Jon (2011). The Garner Files: A Memoir. Simon & Schuster. p. 252.