Submarine Raider is a 1942 American war film directed by Lew Landers and starring John Howard.
[1] A Japanese aircraft carrier is heading to Hawaii, it sinks a civilian yacht the crew escape to a life boat but shot up only a single female survivor.
Budd Boetticher was working as an assistant director at Columbia Pictures, notably to George Stevens on The More the Merrier.
Harry Cohn took a liking to Boetticher and got him to direct the last two days of filming.
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