Audio problem: When the burning USS Haynes is about to ram the disabled submarine, two Germans open fire on the destroyer with a deck-mounted Oerlikon autocannon. However, the sound of the cannon firing heard in the movie is far too slow to match the real thing, and in a segment where the cannon's muzzle flash is seen, it flickers far too quickly to accommodate the slower reports. (01:26:33)
The Enemy Below (1957)
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Directed by: Dick Powell
Starring: Robert Mitchum, David Hedison, Theodore Bikel, Curd Jürgens
Captain Murrell: I have no idea what he is, what he thinks. I don't want to know the man I'm... trying to destroy.
Trivia: The scenes on the Haynes were filmed on an actual Buckley Class destroyer escort, the USS Whitehurst (DE 634). A great number of the Whitehurst crew act in the movie as the crew of the Haynes, with the commanding officer Lieutenant Commander Walter R. Smith playing the chief engineer (though on IMDB this role is credited to Robert Boon).