Down Periscope
1996 · 92 MIN · IMDB 6.2 · 28,162 VOTES · DIR. David S. Ward
Overview
Maverick Navy Lieutenant Commander Tom Dodge will never be a textbook officer, but he's a brilliant seaman who's always wanted to command a nuclear submarine — he's been given one last chance to clean up his record. Unfortunately, Admiral Graham, his nemesis, would rather sink the fleet than give Dodge his own boat. So, Graham stacks the deck against him and assigns Dodge to the Stingray, a diesel-powered WW2 submarine that can barely keep afloat. To make matters worse, Dodge's crew is a collection of maladjusted, mistake-prone misfits. Then, he's tagged the "enemy" in a crucial war game, and ordered to take on the U.S. Navy's best.
Dialogue Timeline — 942 lines
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00:01:04 Moving on to the last name on the list, Lt Cmdr Thomas Dodge.
00:04:20 Apparently not.
00:07:40 In conventional battle, certainly that's true.
00:10:18 We have our crew here, I see. What do you say we board them?
00:12:57 Nitro.
00:15:59 (kissing noises and wolf-whistles)
00:19:16 I'm not happy with this boat, sir.
00:22:55 All right, gentlemen. Let's kick this pig!
00:27:04 I'd rather not, sir. I want to finish this dive.
00:31:13 but the conditions of the exercise prohibit it.
00:34:11 Make normal one-third turns. Come right at 3-4-6.
00:37:35 Sonar, plug that in. Running lights on.
00:41:08 I got four months to go in the navy.
00:44:01 Oh, my God. There's cockroaches in the flour.
00:47:31 All hands, we are now going silent. Repeat, full silent.
00:55:10 Live to fight another day, Captain Poon.
00:58:59 - Relinquish command. - Yes, sir.
01:01:54 - From the Caribbean. - Don't let it fly away. That's supper.
01:05:45 I haven't been getting much sleep. Everything's set to go, right?
01:09:40 - Propeller turbulence is becoming a problem. - Two degrees down bubble.
01:13:39 - How you doing back there, Howard? - We'll be up in a couple of minutes.
01:17:24 OK, we've got cloud cover up there. Low overcast.
01:21:54 Forget the phone. Put it on the squawk.
01:26:11 and will attend its launching on Friday.