Two-Man Submarine (1944)

Director
Lew Landers

Main cast
Tom Neal; Ann Savage; J. Carrol Naish; Abner Biberman; Robert Williams

Genres
Action, Drama, War

Description
Medical researchers Jerry Evans and Walt Hedges are assigned by a pharmaceutical company to work at a secret laboratory on a remote South Pacific Island in order to produce penicillium, the mold from which the magic drug penicillin is derived.


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