Submarine Raider

 Submarine Raider is a 1942 American war film directed by Lew Landers and starring John Howard.

Plot
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. She is rescued by a US submarine but they can’t send out the carrier’s position. After the carrier has bombed Pearl Harbour the sub sinks the carrier returning to pick up the pilot that tried to bomb the sub.

Production
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. Boetticher said it was a 12-day picture and recalled "my God, I studied! I prepared every angle, I went over the script line by line, I prepared for those two days as if I were directing Gone With the Wind, because I didn't have any talent for it."

Boetticher called Landers "a no-talent guy. They called him the "D" director there at Columbia; he just wasn't any good. Whenever they had a picture they didn't really care about, they'd give it to Landers." He later performed a similar task on U-Boat Prisoner (1944).