Submarine Patrol (1938)





Rich and spoiled Perry Townsend III is assigned a sub chaser in World War I. He falls in love with a poor girl, and along with a crew of misfits, sees action in Europe and proves himself to be “regular” in spite of his class. 2


Screenplay

Sarah Gleeson-White (ed.)
William Faulkner at Twentieth Century-Fox, The annotated screenplays
New York, NY, 2017

Books with substantial mentioning of Submarine Patrol

Tom Weaver, Biography by Gregory William Mank
John Carradine: The Films
Jefferson, NC, 1999

Tag Gallagher
John Ford: The Man and His Films
Berkeley-Los Angeles-London, 1986

J.A. Place
The Non-Western Films of John Ford
Secaucus, NJ, 1979