Submarine Base

1943 American film directed by Albert H. Kelley for Producers Releasing Corporation. The working title was Raiders of the Pacific, which sounds a lot better and probably would have lured more suckers into the cinema. It stars John Litel, Alan Baxter, Eric Blore, Georges Metaxa and Rafael Storm in one of the girl parts.

A ship’s engineer named Taggart is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an all-American gangster who found New York too hot and decided to hide out as a salty fisherman operating from an tiny island off of the coast of South America. His headquarters, (all gangsters need one) is at a seedy bar and grill that caters to dirty, sweaty and unwashed characters who need girls to satisfy their filthy lust. Taggart discovers that Joe is selling torpedoes to the evil Germans.