Hell Boats

1970
PG-13
1h 35m

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An American commander, serving under the British Royal Navy in 1942, is assigned to blockade the island of Malta and told to formulate a plan to destroy the Nazi arsenal in Sicily.An American commander, serving under the British Royal Navy in 1942, is assigned to blockade the island of Malta and told to formulate a plan to destroy the Nazi arsenal in Sicily.An American commander, serving under the British Royal Navy in 1942, is assigned to blockade the island of Malta and told to formulate a plan to destroy the Nazi arsenal in Sicily.

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Trivia
Jeffords' mission is to knock out the submarine pens at Augusta, Sicily, because the Germans are storing radio-guided "glider bombs" there to be used against Allied shipping. While it sounds like a fantasy, the Germans did, in fact, have such weapons deployed in the Mediterranean theater in WW II - the world's first smart bombs. Nevertheless, the movie is set in 1942 and the first operational use of the Fritz X and Henschel 293 glide bombs did not occur until August 1943.

Goofs
In the opening battle scene, the colliding boats explode before they hit each other.

Quotes
Flight Announcer: [to the military personnel alighting the plane about its propellers] The motors will not be stopped while we're on the ground. Try to avoid running into them; we will need them after you've gone.

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3/10

Why even make this movie?

Given that this movie was made in 1970 on Malta, I can only guess that there was an actual MTB on Malta and someone thought "It'd be great to make a movie about MTBs at Malta" and instead of making an actual historical movie, they made this bit of garbage.

To give it credit, the boat that we see the main crew aboard does look good, the uniforms seem spot on (I am not an expert on British Naval Uniforms of WWII however), but the plot is just a throw-away, the combat scenes are hopelessly bad, the special effects are just plain awful (even for 1970) and the technique shown for picking up the two divers didn't exist in 1942 (and the Aqua-lung wouldn't have been in use by the British Navy, either).

Not very entertaining and certainly not educational.