The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I nearly put the switch on off in the first five minutes then giving it an honest chance i found myself interested in CRASH DIVE. Special effects were awesome just as the ones in SO PROUDLY WE HAIL...that same year.The acting cant get any better Tyronne Power and DANA ANDREWS two top notch Fox actors. James Gleason true to himself a genuine pro. Unfortunately i don't feel anything for Anne Baxter...there is something about her wooden acting that bothers me..although she was great in ALL ABOUT EVE. I would have given the role of Jean to either Paulette Goddard....Gene Tierney or Gail Russell. The movie kept me captivated till the very end and i found myself wondering who would come back to Anne Baxter alive. And i don't care what people think.....Tyrone Powers looks has never been surpassed...not even todays Pitt..CRUISE....etc.

I really enjoyed this movie and I like what other reviewers have said. particularly the reports on the history of US Navy shipping at the time and also some of the goofs. I did enjoy the acting and interesting plot. I felt like the scenes of the Depth charges being dripped was a bit amateurish. the splashes of the cans told you it was small cans in a tub or something. Good movie overall great action at the German occupied Island shipping base. The movie must have been good as it kept my attention throughout, that always says something. I have a feeling I bought this movie from Amazon when I saw it advertised in the same area of another War/ Submarine Movie I was looking for. Glad I bought it.

Fantastic special effects highlight this World War II submarine drama starring Tyrone Power, Dana Andrews, and Anne Baxter - Power's last before going into the Marines.Power is charming as a man who captures the heart of Anne Baxter, who though he doesn't know it, just happens to be the girl of Dana Andrews, Power's new commanding officer.Out on the submarine, there's some exciting action as the sub searches for a secret base set up by the Nazis. One interesting subplot is the friendship of Oliver, a black soldier, with Mac, portrayed by James Gleason. Ben Carter, who played Oliver, does a great job, and his role as a concerned friend and brave soldier is not the usual stereotypical one blacks were often forced to play. The ending, of course, is pure propaganda as Power, supposedly talking to his uncle, talks about the fighting men, subs, PT boats, and the like all doing their job. I'm in no way trying to denigrate it - propaganda is a fascinating part of film history and at that time was deemed important to the war movement. It's all very interesting to view today. And Power is gorgeous.

Archie Mayo's film lurches between a straightforward war movie (with impressive effects in the later section, concerning an attack on a submarine) and a tug of love romance between two friends and the girl they both want to marry. The balance between the two stories isn't always effective, and perhaps the film would have been better one thing or the other.However, Tyrone Power is top-billed - in his last movie before real-life active service - and close following in the cast are Dana Andrews, reliable as ever in what could have been a unsympathetic role, and Anne Baxter as the schoolmistress who wins their hearts. All are very good. James Gleason, as 'Mac', is as watchable as ever, while the great May Whitty makes an impact when the focus moves away from the boys at sea.'Crash Dive' is perhaps a noble failure, but yet another interesting war film, this time propaganda for the submarine units. It is also of note for the blink-and-you-miss-him film debut of Steve Forrest (younger brother of Dana Andrews).