Looking for a film title, made around 1948 - 58 about a german
submarine, where a sick  man is
fired through a torpedo tube to confuse the surface enemy.The Uboat
commander asks him " Do you love the
Fatherland"

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 28 Nov 2004 14:13 PST

Hi garcia717,

Although not the exact description you gave, could this perhaps be the
movie that you are thinking of?

"This movie describes the true events of the British trying to confuse
the Germans as to where the Allies will invade - Sicily or Greece. By
arranging to have a dead body wash ashore in Spain with top-secret
documents, the British cause the Germans to alter their defenses, thus
saving the Allies from suffering even more casualties. How the British
found a body, the details that they had to come up with to make the
Germans believe the body was for real, and the subsequent German
effort to determine whether or not the information found on the body
was accurate, all make for an exciting story which moves at a swift
pace. This is really a great World War II movie."

Another excerpt:

"The story is about a true scheme which the Brits used to make the
Germans believe the southern European landings were going to be in a
different location than the real one. They discuss how to do this and
come up with the idea of obtaining a body of a young man, which they
are going to dress up as an officer with invasion plans for another
location than the one intended. The movie spends a lot of time
explaining how they got the body, what they had to do to fake all
this, including figuring out on which European beach they should have
the body wash ashore."

If this is the movie you are looking for, let em know and I will
provide you with details.

Waiting to hear your views.

Best regards,
Rainbow

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Clarification of Question by garcia717-ga on 28 Nov 2004 22:57 PST

The scene in the film is vivid in my memory, and it is not in any of
the films kindly referred to by others here.

The sick man is lying in a bed or cot, and the German U Boat commander
wants to fool the surface ( British, I think) raiders.  he therefore
goes over to the man who is conscious, and asks him something like  "
How much do you like |(love) the Fatherland".  When it dawns on the
man that he is going to be used as a live torpedo, he starts screaming
and shouting as he is manhandled to the tube.  later, The people on
the surface get to him and cradle him.

All the rest of the film has gone from my memory except the bit above.

Could it possibly be the following films?

The Enemy Below (1957) It's Robert Mitchum vs. Curt Jurgens as the
commanders of an American destroyer and a German U-boat play a deadly
game of cat and mouse. Noted for its underwater effects.

Crash Dive (1943) This adventure, set during World War II, features
two Navy men vying for the love of the same woman. Tyrone Powers stars
as Lieutenant Ward Stewart, a rakish Navy man recently assigned to a
new post on a submarine. While on a train headed to Washington D.C.,
Stewart meets teacher Jean Hewlitt (Anne Baxter), quickly falls for
her, and eventually succeeds in gaining her affection. What Stewart
doesn't know is that Hewlitt is the girlfriend of his commanding
officer, Lt. Commander Dewey Connors (Dana Andrews). After a dangerous
mission is completed, Stewart asks Hewlitt to marry him, and she
accepts. Further complications develop when both officers set off
together on a dangerous mission to destroy a Nazi base--after Connors
discovers that his subordinate has been pursuing his women. CRASH
DRIVE is a fine drama, presenting a love triangle that truly tests the
conflicts between romantic love and loyalty to one's friends and one's
country. The film includes several magnificent battle scenes.

Das Boot?