{"id":33639,"date":"2023-08-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33639"},"modified":"2023-08-27T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T12:45:00","slug":"torpedo-run-1958-starring-glenn-ford-ernest-borgnine-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33639","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Torpedo Run&#8221; (1958) starring Glenn Ford &#038; Ernest Borgnine \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z082723zview_torpedorun.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"389\" \/><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Torpedo Run <\/em><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">(1958)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Joseph Pevney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Richard Sale, William Wister Haines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Diane Brewster, Dean Jones, L.Q. Jones, Philip Ober, Richard Carlyle, Don Keefer, Kimberly Beck, Biff Elliot, Al Freeman Jr., Frank Gorshin<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Robert Reed<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<em> The greatest submarine picture of them all !<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lt. Cmdr. Barney Doyle (Ford) commands the US submarine Greyfish.\u00a0 Their orders are to find and destroy the Shinaru, the Japanese carrier that led the attack on Pearl Harbor.\u00a0 Doyle learns that the Shinaru is protected by battleships and &#8220;shield&#8221; ships carrying US prisoners including women and children.\u00a0 Two of those prisoners are Cmdr. Doyle&#8217;s wife and two year old daughter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Torpedo Run<\/em> was nominated for one <em>Academy Award: Best Effects, Special Effects<\/em> (A. Arnold Gillespie, Harold Humbrock)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are some tense scenes when the Greyfish goes into a mined harbor and later when a submarine crew needs to abandon ship underwater to another sub!<\/p>\n<p>Ernest Borgnine is especially good as second-in-command Lt. Archer &#8216;Archie&#8217; Sloan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Glenn Ford&#8217;s character&#8217;s tough decision makes him unlikable and I didn&#8217;t feel there wasn&#8217;t a solid enough redemption arc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Torpedo Run <\/em><\/strong>(1958) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z082723zview_torpedorun2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Torpedo Run (1958) Director: Joseph Pevney Screenplay: Richard Sale, William Wister Haines Stars: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Diane Brewster, Dean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33645,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33639\/revisions\/33645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}