Prison Ship (1945 film)

Prison Ship is a 1945 American war drama film directed by Arthur Dreifuss and starring Nina Foch, Robert Lowery and Richard Loo.

Set during Pacific Campaign during World War II it was released several months after VJ Day ended the conflict.

A Japanese tanker carrying Allied prisoners from a Pacific island to Japan is used as a decoy to draw the attention of American submarines and lure them to their destruction.

The captives launch a failed attempt to takeover the ship and in retaliation the captain orders the shooting of woman and children.

Anne Graham, a British journalist, and Tom Jeffries manage to make contact with a nearby American submarine which attacks the ship and rescues the surviving passengers.