Bingowings said:The scenes of crewmen enjoying shore leave during the impasse are only jarring if you are expecting an action movie.
Shows like that would have been common place back then and navy personnel do like to chat up ladies so I don't have a problem with those scenes.
That did not happen in this movie, and that is my point. The characters and crews of the British or German ships that we had seen so far in the story DID NOT go to this music club! This club and the people in it were totally new to the story, not sailors, and it was very jarring. The only person chatting up the ladies was the radio guy, and it was done in the typical stereotype 50's movie way, not how real men and women act. There was also a bit where the goofy acting (comic relief) owner of the club had a running gag of trying to charge the radio guy for extra money to use of his club. There was no scene where sailors arrive at the club, and have any type of cavorting shore leave type thing with the girls. I would have wanted to see that version of the film. All the semen in this film acted a rather bit effeminate if you ask me. And when Bernard Lee told the British intelligence man that "Captain Langsdorff has fine seamen", I almost busted a gut.