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The Deep Six is a 1958 American World War II drama film directed by Rudolph Maté, loosely based on a novel of the same name by Martin Dibner. The film stars Alan Ladd , who co-produced it, William Bendix , Dianne Foster , Keenan Wynn , James Whitmore , and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
The Deep Six: Directed by Rudolph Maté. With Alan Ladd, Dianne Foster, William Bendix, Keenan Wynn. Called to active duty during World War II, U.S. Navy Reserve lieutenant Alec Austin struggles to do his military duties while observing his Quaker beliefs, to the dismay of his comrades.
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- Drama, War
- Rudolph Maté
- 1958-03-09
Find out who starred in and worked on the 1958 war drama The Deep Six, directed by Rudolph Maté and based on a novel by Martin Dibner. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, and more on IMDb.
The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer Alec Austin, a Quaker whose sincere pacifist sentiments do not sit well with his crew members.
The Deep Six is a wartime drama starring Ladd as Alec Austen – a Quaker who is bound by his religion to be a pacifist. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, he is called up and assigned to the navy as a gunnery officer – but his colleagues are afraid that he will let them down if they are attacked.
Synopsis. On the home front during World War II, advertising art director Susan Cahill, put off by her boss and fiancé Paul Clemson's flirtation with a potential client's daughter to assure that he secures a contract, accepts agency artist Alexander "Alec" Austen's dinner invitation one night.
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The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer Alec Austin, a Quaker whose sincere pacifist sentiments do not sit well with his crew members.
