Montel travels with his assistant, Professor Denise Gerard ( Bella Darvi) Jones reluctantly agrees, providing that the submarine is armed, and that he is allowed to hire some of his former navy shipmates. They must have proof, and so offer Jones $45,000 if he will command a World War II-era Japanese submarine to follow a Communist Chinese freighter Kiang Ching, which has been making suspicious deliveries in that area. Jones meets Professor Montel and a small group of international scientists, businessmen, and statesmen who suspect the Communist Chinese are building a secret atomic base on an island somewhere north of Japan. Navy USS Bowfin (SS-287) submarine commander Adam Jones ( Richard Widmark) arrives in Tokyo after receiving a mysterious package containing $5,000. Renowned French scientist Professor Montel ( Victor Francen) goes missing authorities believe that he and four other Western scientists have defected behind the Iron Curtain.įormer U.S. Shortly thereafter it was indicated that this atomic reaction, according to scientific reports, originated in a remote area in North Pacific waters, somewhere between the northern tip of the Japanese Islands and the Arctic Circle. In the summer of 1953, it was announced that an atomic bomb of foreign origin had been exploded somewhere outside the United States. Before the credits, an off-screen voice-over narrates:
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